War Story: We Replaced Pinecone 1.5 with Milvus 2.4 and Reduced Our Vector DB Cost by 49%

\n At 3:17 AM on a Tuesday, our Pinecone 1.5 bill hit $42,000 for the month – 72% over budget, with p99 vector search latency spiking to 3.8 seconds during peak traffic. We switched to Milvus 2.4 three months later, and our monthly vector DB spend dropped to $21,420: a 49% reduction with p99 latency steady at 112ms. This is exactly how we did it, with zero downtime and no data loss. \n\n \n 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now \n \n* GTFOBins (89 points) \n* Talkie: a 13B vintage language model