Tag: laravel
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Build an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector
Earlier this month we wrote that Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively. Mohamed Touhami Rhaima, one of the community contributors who made that happen, has now written a tutorial on how to use it, and recorded a video version.
Why MariaDB Vector in Laravel
With Laravel 13 and MariaDB 11.7 or later, you can store embeddings and search them by meaning in the same database as the rest of your application data, using the framework’s own database features.
This […]
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Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively
If your Laravel application runs on MariaDB, you can add semantic search to it without a second database, an external vector service or an extra package. Since Laravel 13.28, vector columns, vector indexes and similarity queries work on MariaDB out of the box. A large part of that work came from community contributors, including Mohamed Touhami Rhaima.
Until this summer, Laravel’s built-in vector search was a PostgreSQL feature: it assumed pgvector. Laravel’s AI SDK documentation now reads: “Vector queries are currently supported on […]
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MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model
Update, October 2026: Since Laravel 13.28 (August 2026), vector columns, vector indexes, the AsVector cast and vector similarity queries on MariaDB are built into Laravel itself, with no package needed. See Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively. Erik’s package remains an option for Laravel 12, and his findings on choosing an embedding model apply whichever you use.
laravel-mariadb-vector is an open-source project by Erik Ros, bringing MariaDB’s native vector search to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. In his guest post, Erik shares how it works, and […]
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Can you do RAG with Full Text Search in MariaDB?
We continue our blog series on learning more about users of MariaDB. Searching LinkedIn for posts about MariaDB this morning we saw an impressive confident post about using MariaDB in a RAG solution named SemantiQ. We got curious about it and reached out to the author Lorenzo Cremonese to have a chat.
Tell us about yourself Lorenzo!
I’m an Italian studying in Spain. I began programming when I was 14, and I’m now 22. I’m a self-taught web developer since […]