Benjamin Flast, Director, Product Management at MongoDB discusses vector search capabilities, integration with AWS Bedrock, and its transformative role in enabling scalable, efficient, and AI-powered solutions.

Topics Include:

• Introduction to MongoDB's vector search and AWS Bedrock
• Core concepts of vectors and embeddings explained
• High-dimensional space and vector similarity overview
• Embedding model use in vector creation
• Importance of distance functions in vector relations
• Vector search uses k-nearest neighbor algorithm
• Euclidean, Cosine, and Dot Product similarity functions
• Applications for different similarity functions discussed
• Large language models and vector search explained
• Introduction to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Combining external data with LLMs in RAG
• MongoDB's document model for flexible data storage
• MongoDB Atlas platform capabilities overview
• Unified interface for MongoDB document model
• Approximate nearest neighbor search for efficiency
• Vector indexing in MongoDB for fast querying
• Search nodes for scalable vector search processing
• MongoDB AI integrations with third-party libraries
• Semantic caching for efficient response retrieval
• MongoDB's private link support on AWS Bedrock
• Future potential of vector search and RAG applications
• Example use case: Metaphor Data's data catalog
• Example use case: Okta's conversational interface
• Example use case: Delivery Hero product recommendations
• Final takeaways on MongoDB Atlas vector search

Participants:

• Benjamin Flast - Director, Product Management, MongoDB

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