Retrieval Without the Vector Database
15 May 2026, 11:15 – 11:45 · Room 2A · AI Engineering · Talk (30 min)
Meridian Freight's retrieval runs on the search index it already had. The talk compares it against the vector database it replaced on the same traffic — recall, latency, cost and the operational surface — and is honest about the two query shapes where the vector store still wins.
Speakers
Pavel Horak
Infrastructure Architect, Meridian Freight