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title: DZone Refcard
description: Discover the power of vector databases in AI applications! Learn about embeddings, similarity search, and practical use cases in this insightful guide.
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## Getting Started With Vector Databases

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Vector databases are quickly emerging as a key component of the AI-native tech stack, enabling fundamental use cases like semantic search, recommendation engines, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). 

This Refcard provides an overview of vector databases, including basic concepts, use cases, and  examples.

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