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title: Getting Started with Weaviatepublic
description: Quickstarts to go from zero to a working Managed Weaviate cluster.
product: Vector Databases
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/weaviate/getting-started/
last_updated: "2018-06-26"
---

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# Getting Started with Weaviate (public)

DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is a fully managed Weaviate vector database for retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and similarity-based AI workloads. Clusters are provisioned, secured, backed up, and patched by DigitalOcean.

[Weaviate Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/weaviate/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Go from zero to a working Managed Weaviate cluster in a few minutes.