What does Turbopuffer do?
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And what's going on in the category formerly known as vector databases?
And what's going on in the category formerly known as vector databases? Last updated Aug 25, 2026databases The TL;DR# Turbopuffer is a search engine built on top of object storage (like AWS S3). AI applications need to quickly search through lots of unstructured data (text + embeddings). Cursor searches through your codebase, Notion AI searches through your documents. In the early days of AI applications, most vector search options (like vector databases) stored data on RAM to ensure fast query times. This turned out to be quite expensive. Turbopuffer offers a search engine on data…
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