AI Search (formerly Vector Search)
GALast seen at this status: 2024-05-21·May 2024
Builds search indexes from Unity Catalog tables (Delta tables, streaming tables, materialized views and managed Iceberg v3 tables) and serves vector similarity, hybrid and full-text keyword queries from AI Search endpoints through a REST API or Python SDK; full-text search is in Beta. Delta Sync indexes stay in sync with their source table, with embeddings computed by Databricks or supplied by the user, while Direct Vector Access indexes are updated through the API. Standard endpoints hold up to 320 million vectors at dimension 768, and storage-optimized endpoints over one billion.
Sub-features (7)
- AI Search High QPSGAsince 2026-07-15
- AI Search on streaming tables, materialized views and managed Iceberg tablesGAsince 2026-10-21
- AI Search rerankerGAsince 2025-12-08
- AI Search retrieval qualityBetasince 2026-04-13
- AI Search storage-optimized endpointsGAsince 2026-05-20
- ai_search functionBetasince 2026-08-07
- vector_search functionPublic previewsince 2024-09-25
Status history
- GA
- Public preview2023-11-30 · Nov 2023Release notes
Sources (4)
- 2026-10-21Databricks docs GA
- 2026-06-01Release notes
- 2024-05-21Release notes GA
- 2023-11-30Release notes Public preview
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