MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model

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 his insights about picking an embedding model.

I maintain laravel-mariadb-vector, a small open source package that brings MariaDB’s native vector search to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. It’s my first open source project, it has over 100 installs, no marketing budget, and it exists because I needed it.

This post is a quick introduction and an experiment with 2,942 job titles in English and Dutch that shows why the embedding model you pick and how you use it matters far more than you might expect.

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.

Lorenzo’s post on LinkedIn

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 3-4 years ago, and I’m now doing a two year University education in Spain focused on web development at the institute IES ENRIC VALOR, in Pego.