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title: "Vector Database Basics: HNSW"
description: "Learn more about hierarchical navigable small world indexes, their pros and cons, and how to use them with PostgreSQL via pgvector."
section: "Postgres and vector data"
published: 2024-08-29T15:01:53.339Z
---

*Published at Aug 29, 2024*

> **TimescaleDB is now Tiger Data.**

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