BGE-VL

Lucene KNN vector plugin for Elasticsearch search engine, enabling hybrid lexical+vector search, BM25 fusion, HNSW/IVF indexes for ANN. Used for enterprise search, RAG, multimodal apps. Integrated vs standalone like Weaviate: superior hybrid text handling but higher resource footprint.

Universal multimodal embedding model from Jina AI supporting text and images through unified pathway. Built on Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct, outperforms proprietary models on visually rich document retrieval. This is a commercial API with free tier, though OSS weights available.

ClickHouse is a columnar OLAP database with vector indexes (ANN via AMM, brute-force), supporting SQL queries over vectors + structured data at petabyte scale. Excels in aggregations with vectors. For analytics workloads with embeddings; faster ingestion than Postgres pgvector for big data.

Open-source database specializing in unstructured and multimodal data for AI/ML applications. Handles images, videos, and other data with decent vector operations, high recall for multimodal integration, and tight compatibility with PyTorch and TensorFlow.

Open-source tool by VectifyAI for pagewise document indexing that converts PDF pages into image representations for downstream multimodal embedding and retrieval. Designed to support late-interaction-based retrieval approaches like ColPali by preserving original document layout and visual structure.

Multimodal embedding model with 137M parameters that outperforms OpenAI text-embedding-3-small on both short and long context tasks. Features Matryoshka Representation Learning for flexible embedding dimensions.