I "built" Sana, a vector DB on object storage
Details
- External ID
- 48619372
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I "built" Sana, a vector DB on object storage
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Disclaimer it is a heavily AI assisted project. The goal was not to be the most performative but the kind that's easier to learn from.I wanted to share this in case there are people who had the same idea or wanted to see something like this.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- vector database on object storage
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author built this educational project heavily with AI, demonstrating that an object-storage-backed vector index is entirely within reach for AI-assisted solo development.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 235 days after the earliest competitor.
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Same idea, different domain
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