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The Invisible Cost of Context Windows: Why Vector Databases Are Reaching Their Limits
Community description: As LLMs cross the million-token threshold, the trade-offs of vector search are shifting. Here is why...
Dev.to | Sep 16, 2026 | Abhishek Banerjee
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Store the resulting dense vectors in a specialized vector database using Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) graphs. To cosine similarity algorithms, almost every vector begins to look equidistant from every other vector. Vector Chunks With models natively handling large context windows, the trade-off matrix between Pre-indexing via Vector Search versus In-Context Direct Attention has changed.
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