Piazza, syncing the web in a vectorized DB
We recently released an open source project that syncs wikipedia with a vector database : https://github.com/Piazza-tech/Piazza-Updater We used Verba, Weaviate and Docker for deployment We'd like to have some feedback on how to continue the project, which data sources would be interesting to vectorize. You can give feedback on our landing page http://piazza.tech Please leave a star !
Piazza, syncing the web in a vectorized DB launched on December 5, 2024 with 28 votes, #643 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Piazza is an open source project that synchronizes Wikipedia content into a vector database for search and retrieval applications. Built with Verba, Weaviate, and Docker, it enables developers to work with vectorized text data at scale. The tool is designed for developers building search or AI applications who need structured access to large knowledge bases in vector format.
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