Resources

April 29, 2025

AI Database Comparison: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL and Pgvector

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping how we build AI solutions. The database technology you choose to power these applications can significantly impact the performance, scalability, and success of your AI application. In this webinar, Staff Developer Advocate Richmond Alake will compare two vector search solutions—PostgreSQL with pgvector and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search—and guide you through selecting the right option for your AI workloads. Whether you’re a data engineer, AI architect, or developer, you’ll understand how to think about and optimize critical metrics like latency and throughput to meet the demands of modern AI applications. What you’ll learn: How retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) boosts LLM-based applications by integrating external data in real time. How PostgreSQL/pgvector and MongoDB Atlas handle high-performance vector operations for tasks like semantic search and recommendation engines. How robust vector databases enable AI agents to reason, plan, and act autonomously, creating truly dynamic and interactive AI experiences. How a real-world application using a financial Q&A dataset illustrates practical deployment and optimization strategies. How key metrics like latency and throughput directly affect the success of LLM applications. Reserve your seat now to be part of this engaging and thought-provoking discussion. Even if you can’t attend, register anyway and we’ll send you a link to watch on-demand and at your convenience. Hope to see you there!

Save your seat →

April 10, 2025

AI Database Comparison: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL and Pgvector

12 P.M. ET Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping how we build AI solutions, from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to AI agents and agentic systems that continuously reason, reflect, and act on new data. The database technology you choose to power these applications can significantly impact the performance, scalability, and success of your AI application. In this webinar, Staff Developer Advocate Richmond Alake will compare two vector search solutions — PostgreSQL with pgvector and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search — and guide you through selecting the right option for your AI workloads. Whether you’re a data engineer, AI architect, or developer, you’ll walk away with actionable insights on how to think about and optimize critical metrics like latency and throughput to meet the demands of modern AI applications. What you’ll learn: How RAG boosts LLM-based applications by integrating external data in real time and how semantic search and RAG can be implemented using both databases. How PostgreSQL/pgvector and MongoDB Atlas handle high-performance vector operations crucial for tasks like semantic search and recommendation. How robust vector databases enable AI agents to reason, plan, and act autonomously, creating truly dynamic and interactive AI experiences. How a real-world application using a financial Q&A dataset illustrates practical deployment and optimization strategies. How key metrics like latency and throughput directly affect the success of LLM applications and how to apply proven tuning techniques.

Save your seat →

April 3, 2025

Building RAG Applications Using Multimodal Data

12 P.M. ET Your AI Search needs to be diverse, because the internet is filled with heterogeneous content spanning multiple formats and modalities. To build truly effective AI systems, you must move beyond text-only approaches. Join MongoDB Senior AI Developer Advocate Apoorva Joshi in a webinar exploring advanced strategies for processing multimodal data within RAG pipelines. Learn how to navigate the complex landscape of mixed-modality content to create more comprehensive AI search capabilities. You’ll also discover how MongoDB is revolutionizing AI applications by integrating state-of-the-art embedding models from Voyage AI. You’ll learn: Multimodal embedding techniques for diverse data formats (text, images, tables, and figures) How Voyage AI's multimodal embedding models differ from competitors and drive more accurate retrievals Using Vision Language Models (VLMs) as an alternative to traditional chunking approaches Comparative evaluation of Voyage multimodal models against other solutions for mixed-modality data Advanced strategies for exploring and retrieving from multimodal datasets Experience a live code walkthrough with real-world examples of multimodal RAG implementation. We'll demonstrate how MongoDB Atlas integrates with Voyage AI's embedding capabilities to handle the full spectrum of content types found in real-world applications. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your multimodal AI development skills and see firsthand how MongoDB and Voyage AI are setting new standards for processing diverse data formats.

Save your seat →

March 27, 2025

AI Database Comparison: MongoDB Atlas vs. Elasticsearch

12 P.M. ET Large language models (LLMs) are transforming how AI applications are built, from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to agentic systems that dynamically reason, learn, and adapt. And the AI ecosystem offers an array of technologies developers can leverage to build intelligent solutions. One of the most critical elements is the database. In generative AI applications, the database directly impacts response latency, application performance, and output accuracy. This webinar compares two solutions for vector data storage, indexing and retrieval, MongoDB Atlas and Elasticsearch. We’ll implement semantic search for MongoDB and Elasticsearch, laying the groundwork for robust RAG pipelines, and provide performance guidance for semantic search on MongoDB Atlas. Join MongoDB Staff Developer Advocate Richmond Alake for this important webinar where you'll learn: Common search patterns in AI workloads with concrete examples and detailed performance guidance for MongoDB Atlas Vector Search. Why database architecture matters in generative AI, illustrated through real-world implementation scenarios that showcase developer productivity and application capabilities. How to implement MongoDB Atlas Vector Search step-by-step, with live coding demonstrations that show how to enable semantic search for powerful RAG solutions through a unified developer experience. Practical walkthrough of building complete RAG pipelines that integrate real-time data, with working code examples you can adapt for your own dynamic LLM-driven applications. Actionable best practices for optimizing MongoDB Atlas for AI workloads, including live demonstrations of index configuration, efficient query patterns, and practical scaling strategies. Whether you're building AI chatbots, recommendation engines, or advanced agentic systems, understanding how your database powers LLM-enabled applications is essential. By the end of this webinar, you'll have practical implementation knowledge and working code examples to architect your AI solutions using MongoDB Atlas for vector search and beyond.

Save your seat →