Building Semantic Search with Vector Databases

Build semantic search that understands meaning.

Create search that finds relevant results by meaning, not keywords.

Architecture

1. Document ingestion

2. Embedding generation

3. Vector storage

4. Query embedding

5. Similarity search

Code Example

def semantic_search(query, vectorstore, k=5):

query_embedding = embeddings.embed_query(query)

results = vectorstore.similarity_search_by_vector(query_embedding, k=k)

return results

Benefits

✅ Better relevance

✅ Handles synonyms

✅ Multi-language support

Conclusion

Semantic search improves search quality!

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