{"id":33905,"date":"2026-06-23T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/htap-summit\/session-replays\/\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:59:21","slug":"vector-search-meets-distributed-sql-why-agentic-ai-doesnt-need-another-database","status":"publish","type":"session-replay","link":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/tidb-scaile-summit\/session-replays\/vector-search-meets-distributed-sql-why-agentic-ai-doesnt-need-another-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector Search Meets Distributed SQL: Why Agentic AI Doesn&#8217;t Need Another Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most agentic AI architectures bolt a vector database onto an existing stack, adding another system to manage, another sync pipeline to maintain, and another failure point to monitor. But what if your SQL database already spoke vectors natively?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this session, Mattias Jonsson explores how built-in vector search and AI-native capabilities in distributed SQL eliminate the need for a separate vector database. 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