Why Your Vector Database Is Overpriced: Lucene's 32x Compression and Serverless Economics (opens in new tab)

Why Your Vector Database Is Overpriced: Lucene's 32x Compression and Serverless Economics In 2026, the boundary between "search engine" and "AI infrastructure" has dissolved. What started as text indexing has become the backbone of retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and serverless AI pipelines. This is the story of how the oldest search technology in the Java ecosystem became the most important infrastructure you've never noticed. The Convergence No One Saw Coming Five years ag...