Vectara
Vectara is an API-first search platform offering Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service, designed for developers and data engineers with features like cross-language search, real-time updates, and secure, reliable search-as-a-service.
Services
Vectara provides an array of services centered around its API-first search platform, targeted primarily at application developers and data engineers. The platform offers a Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service (RAGaaS) approach, ensuring high reliability and relevance. Features include secure, language-agnostic, and real-time search capabilities, as well as robust access control. The platform is also capable of handling cross-language search, automatic text extraction from multiple formats (PDF, Microsoft Word, HTML, JSON), and can scale to meet higher query volumes without additional infrastructure management.
Products
Vectara's main product is its advanced RAGaaS platform, designed to optimize search and retrieval processes. The platform employs zero-shot models for language understanding, cross-attentional neural networks for accuracy, and indexing techniques that guarantee low latency and high recall. Notable features include snippet extraction, metadata annotation, neural re-ranking, and secure data encryption both at rest and in transit. Vectara offers two main plans: a free Growth plan with limited queries and storage, and a Scale plan with advanced controls and premium support.
Platform Features
The Vectara platform is built with several cutting-edge features that support its API-first design. These include breakthrough relevance, explainability, and real-time updatability. The platform supports cross-language search, indexing and searching in 11 commonly written languages, and offers a factual consistency score with each response. Designed to be a fully managed cloud service on AWS, it eliminates the need for server maintenance. Other notable features are encryption at rest and in transit, support for customer-managed encryption keys, and auto-scaling capabilities.
Cloud Deployment
Vectara's platform is a fully managed cloud service deployed on AWS. This eliminates the need for server maintenance and upgrades, providing an automatic scaling capability to handle an increase in query volumes. The cloud deployment ensures high availability, reliability, and secure data handling, with encryption options for data both at rest and in transit. Customers can also manage their own encryption keys, further enhancing the platform's security credentials.