MemotivaRAG & Vector DB Interview: Pinecone vs Qdrant vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs pgvector

Which vector databases support hybrid search out of the box?

RAG & Vector DB Interview: Pinecone vs Qdrant vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs pgvector

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Which vector databases support hybrid search out of the box?

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Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch support hybrid search natively, combining dense vector similarity with sparse BM25 or learned sparse retrieval in a single query. Pinecone supports sparse-dense hybrid through its sparse-dense vectors feature. pgvector requires manual combination of vector search with PostgreSQL full-text search using tsvector. Weaviate and Qdrant both use Reciprocal Rank Fusion by default, while Elasticsearch offers multiple fusion strategies including RRF and linear score combination.
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