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Application Retrieval & Memory

Vald

1A 2distributed, 3scalable 4vector 5search 6engine.

the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

By the Vald project.

W2 What

A cloud-native vector search engine built for Kubernetes at billion scale.

W3 Where

A service running on Kubernetes.

W4 When

When you need distributed vector search.

W5 Why

Vector search that scales horizontally.

W6 With

Kubernetes and NGT.

W7 Watch

Apache-2.0 open-source; self-hosted on your cluster.

Vector-searchDistributedKubernetes

for agents & scripts

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