What is a multimodal database?
SQL, vector, graph and full-text search answer different questions. Here is how they fit together, and what multimodal means in OriginChainDB.
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Multimodal inputs and database query models: two different choices
Follow a scanned product sheet from external text extraction to useful records, and see why input types and database queries are separate choices.
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