Why AI Databases Don't Need SQL
May 30, 2025James Luan

Summary
This post argues for the obsolescence of SQL in AI applications and positions vector databases like Milvus as the future. It contrasts SQL's limitations with unstructured data and semantic search against the capabilities of vector databases, highlighting Milvus's native multimodal support, agent-friendly architecture, and semantic intelligence. It also presents benchmark data showing Milvus's superior performance over PostgreSQL with pgvector for vector similarity search.
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