Lakebase Search is GA: BM25 and vector search extensions in Postgres

Lakebase Postgres now ships two search extensions, lakebase_vector for approximate nearest-neighbour search and lakebase_text for BM25 full-text search, generally available on AWS and Azure. Together they allow semantic, keyword and hybrid search in one SQL query next to operational tables, without a separate search system. The vendor's own benchmarks compare it favourably with pgvector; the post also says Databricks AI Search remains the better fit for managed retrieval with little tuning.

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