Vector search is not exclusively in the domain of text search. There is always image/video search.
But pre-filtering is important, since you want to reduce the set of items to be matched on and it feels like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch are fairing better in this regard. Mixed scoring derived from both both sparse and dense calculations is also important, which is another strength of ES/OS.
But pre-filtering is important, since you want to reduce the set of items to be matched on and it feels like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch are fairing better in this regard. Mixed scoring derived from both both sparse and dense calculations is also important, which is another strength of ES/OS.