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Overview of Amazon MemoryDB
- MemoryDB is AWS's fastest database, fully-managed and durable through a multi-AZ transaction log.
- It provides 49 9's of durability and prioritizes open-source compatibility with Redis OSS and Valkry.
- MemoryDB enables vector search capabilities, allowing customers to store millions of vectors and provide single-digit millisecond vector search queries, updates, and CRUD operations.
- Vector search for MemoryDB enables use cases such as fast semantic search, durable semantic caching, retrieval-augmented generation, and anomaly detection.
Fidelity's Use Cases and Decision Matrix
Financial Markets Use Case
- Fidelity has two types of market participants: analysts (focused on historical data) and traders (interested in current earnings data).
- Unstructured data (research notes, SEC filings) is chunked, converted to embeddings, and stored in a vector database with metadata.
- The system ensures information barriers between analysts and traders through role-based access control.
Self-Help Incident Management Use Case
- Fidelity leverages a pre-built knowledge base to enable individuals to resolve technical issues.
- Incident descriptions and resolutions are chunked, embedded, and stored in a vector database with metadata.
- Users can search the knowledge base by providing context (categories, applications, assignment groups), and the system returns the top matching results.
Capability Matrix and Decision Factors
- Fidelity built a capability matrix to evaluate vector database requirements, including data storage, consumption, processing, security, and non-functional requirements.
- Key decision factors included multi-cloud portability, managed service capabilities, ease of operations and support, and performance benchmarking.
MemoryDB as the Chosen Vector Store
- Fidelity found that MemoryDB met their requirements, providing single-digit millisecond latency with high recall, non-lossy compression, and out-of-the-box monitoring and scaling capabilities.
- MemoryDB's token-based authentication, ability to store data within Fidelity's VPC, and ease of backup and restore were also important factors in the decision.
- Fidelity was able to implement their use cases effectively by leveraging MemoryDB's capabilities, such as defining key spaces for information barriers and using metadata filters for efficient searching.
Conclusion
- The presenters provided links to a GitHub repository with MemoryDB APIs, a blog on semantic caching, and the integration with the Langchain framework for building generative AI applications.
- Attendees were encouraged to provide feedback through a survey.