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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Database fundamentals
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.
How a graph database works vs joins
A relational database re-derives relationships with joins at query time; a graph database stores them as structure and walks them. When each one wins.
How vector search works: HNSW explained
Embeddings turn meaning into geometry. A plain-language walk through similarity metrics, why brute force dies at scale, HNSW, and what quantization costs.