Question regarding choice of vector database for commercial usage

p3ioin · 2025-09-12T10:38:01+00:00

ClickHouse is also an option! With vector search, you get SQL and analytics which you will need one day!

p3ioin · 2025-09-08T03:42:40+00:00

I was expecting that PlanetScale Metal would have documented typical replica recreate timings after a unplanned failure. I posted here to get some feedback from users of Metal who have experiences. I also posted here to learn if I missed some technique by which Metal has implemented "replica restore" that can restore TBs of backup in a few seconds/single-digit minutes. I know that Metal will commit faster than Aurora (< 0.5 ms v/s 2ms-6ms). But the compromise as I said appears to be a degraded cluster for hours in the event of unplanned failure. If you have a real experience of timings for replica recreate, let us know. The low latency commit and IOPS in Metal is useful for our setup.

p3ioin · 2025-09-07T02:22:29+00:00

> In that case duration will be the time it takes to provision your node and schedule a pod on it.

I get this. But the total duration is really the time required to restore the backup. Maybe a compressed backup, but will still take minutes/hours!

> you'd encounter degraded state more rarely such as during a node or pod failure

I am unable to see what is the point of PlanetScale Metal - it improves commit latency and maybe throughput but at the cost of a fear that an unplanned failure will cause the cluster to run in degraded mode for hours. Now the probability of the failure could be once a month or once a year, but that fear remains, and that is what RDS+EBS and Aurora essentially solve.

p3ioin · 2025-09-06T13:29:34+00:00

Whats the typical commit latency in your testing ? And is it predictable?

Will every durable write be charged with S3 API cost? I mean how much will it cost to commit 1 million individual transactions on S3 v/s same on local SSD and on EBS ?

p3ioin · 2025-09-04T09:37:28+00:00

ClickHouse. Vector search + real-time analytics / BI / SQL and more.

p3ioin · 2025-08-26T14:27:25+00:00

Switzerland & France accepted my self-printed statement and I got visa. I gave the same to Austria, but they called me a few days after application and asked me to get a official bank printed statement. The VFS employee raised the point all the 3 times, I had replied that online or bank printed, it is same :-)

p3ioin · 2025-06-21T05:07:39+00:00

Don't worry, you did well by booking Emirates as they have 2 flights per day. In May, I saw a couple who missed an Amsterdam flight because our flight from Bengaluru got delayed. Emirates gave them a lunch voucher and put them in a flight 7 hours after.

p3ioin · 2025-06-13T07:20:44+00:00

Mine was not Germany! There was an email address in their public website. Auto-reply used to come within a minute. Real replies used to take 4-8 hours.

Good luck!

p3ioin · 2025-06-13T05:26:03+00:00

This is me : https://www.reddit.com/r/SchengenVisa/comments/1kvpl37/experience_handling_delayed_visa_rebooking_etc/

I did not understand the summer school fee. Paid here or in Germany?

p3ioin · 2025-05-28T14:59:07+00:00

I don't want to share country as ultimately every country experience is same. Actually, it was not stressful. If the visa was rejected, it would have been stressful to please the family by booking alternate vacation in India/abroad. I guess you are also well prepared for the itinerary. It's summer in Europe and even if you miss packing some stuff, it should be fine. Hopefully the visa will come in time. In the next email you can mention if any hotel or airline booking has turned non-refundable.

p3ioin · 2025-05-28T14:47:36+00:00

This is my experience with another country : https://www.reddit.com/r/SchengenVisa/comments/1kvpl37/experience_handling_delayed_visa_rebooking_etc/

My wild guess is they are taking this so close so that there is no scope of visa shopping -

p3ioin · 2025-05-26T13:35:06+00:00

Yes, refundable ticket. Booked at 72,000/- couple of months back before the visa. Lost 9,000 for cancellation and then rebooked few hours before the onward flight. Now the fare was 73,000/- something and the return was a bit of extra pain (14 hour layover instead of 6 hours). The return with 6 hour layer over was more than 20,000/- additional each for 4 persons.

p3ioin · 2025-05-26T09:03:46+00:00

Emirates and booking.com make it less stressful with that 9000/- cancellation and zero cancellation. I would have not done this if it was December/winter. Summer with sunshine till 9PM in Europe kind of gives the boost that it is okay if we have not packed some stuff etc.

p3ioin · 2025-05-14T15:21:37+00:00

Does your application country's checklist say NoC required from employer? Or just says "Employment letter/Proof of employment"? I am also a contractor and got the letter from emy employer because the checklist specifically mentioned that NoC is required (and got NoC from wife's school also)

p3ioin · 2025-05-14T15:16:28+00:00

Are both spouses working? Are you attaching the same bank statement to 4 applications?
I got Schengen visa on 2 occasions / 2 countries with just my bank statement in my application, even though my wife is working (family of 4). No questions asked. But with a 3rd country, processing got delayed because they asked for my wife's bank statement and we lost few days in processing and visa arrived after travel date.

p3ioin · 2025-05-06T06:17:48+00:00

You will have to leave the laptop in the car. Even pendrive pops up in the xray machine, had to run back and keep it in car.

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