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Business • Management Information Systems

The Vector Database Retreat Nobody Priced In

Enterprises rushed to buy standalone vector databases in 2023 and 2024, then discovered the real bill: double-write sync failures, egress surcharges, and replication costs the pricing calculator never showed. Now they're walking it back into the databases they already run.

S.J. Nam, Ph.D Jun 28, 2026 8 min read