DigitalOcean Vector Databases Features

Validated on 27 Apr 2026 • Last edited on 27 Apr 2026

DigitalOcean Vector Databases are managed clusters purpose-built for vector similarity search, supporting Weaviate, OpenSearch, and PostgreSQL (pgvector) for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and other AI workloads.

DigitalOcean Vector Databases offer the following features by engine:

Feature Weaviate (private preview) OpenSearch PostgreSQL (pgvector)
Core ANN index HNSW (native) HNSW (Lucene, Faiss) HNSW, IVFFlat
Disk-resident ANN index Not available Not available StreamingDiskANN via pgvectorscale
Maximum dimensions 65,535 16,000 2,000 for HNSW index, 16,000 for stored vectors
Hybrid search Native hybrid operator Native hybrid query with normalization processor Application-level via RRF
Filtered similarity search Pre-filtering Filtering during graph traversal on Lucene and Faiss WHERE clause
Built-in vectorization OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, and other modules Embedding happens in your application code; any provider works (DigitalOcean Serverless Inference, third-party, or self-hosted) Embedding happens in your application code; any provider works (DigitalOcean Serverless Inference, third-party, or self-hosted)
Daily backups with point-in-time recovery Yes Yes Yes
High availability with automated failover Yes Yes Yes
End-to-end encryption Yes Yes Yes
Private networking (VPC) Yes Yes Yes

For the full managed-database feature matrix, see Managed Databases.

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