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Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean Vector Databases is now generally available in Data Services that groups managed engines for vector similarity search. The launch includes:

Weaviate in private preview for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search workloads. Available to opted-in customers; preview clusters are not billed.
OpenSearch with the k-NN, ML Commons, and Neural Search plugins for hybrid (vector plus keyword) search and remote embedding models. Uses the existing Managed Databases OpenSearch engine.
PostgreSQL with the vector (pgvector) and vectorscale (pgvectorscale) extensions for vector similarity search alongside relational data.

For an overview and guidance on choosing an engine, see Vector Databases.

Release Note

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is now in private preview. Opted-in customers can provision Weaviate clusters in the TOR1 region in Small, Medium, and Large plans through the dedicated DigitalOcean Vector Databases API at /v2/vector-databases. Clusters are reachable over port 443 for both HTTP and gRPC and support configurable quantization (rq, pq, bq, or sq) for the vector index.

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