# DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL for Vector Search – DigitalOcean Documentation

> Use DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL with the pgvector and pgvectorscale extensions to store embeddings alongside relational data and run vector similarity search in SQL.



## Getting Started with PostgreSQL Vector Search

Quickstart guides for using DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL with pgvector as a vector database.

- [Vector Search Quickstart for PostgreSQL](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/postgresql/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Create a DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL cluster, enable pgvector, store embeddings, and run a similarity search in about 10 minutes.

## DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Vector How-Tos

How to enable pgvector, load embeddings, index and tune vector search, and build advanced workloads with pgvectorscale.

- [Enable pgvector and Load Embeddings](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/postgresql/how-to/load-embeddings/index.html.md): Enable the pgvector extension on DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, design a table for embeddings, and insert vectors from psql, Python, Node.js, and Go.
- [Index and Tune Vector Search on PostgreSQL](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/postgresql/how-to/index-and-tune/index.html.md): Choose between HNSW and IVFFlat, understand pgvector distance operators, tune recall versus speed, and combine similarity search with SQL filters on DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL.
- [Advanced Vector Workloads with pgvectorscale and Hybrid Search](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/postgresql/how-to/advanced-workloads/index.html.md): Use pgvectorscale StreamingDiskANN for disk-resident vector search, combine full-text and vector search for better relevance, and build a minimal RAG pattern on DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL.