Glossary
Vector Store
A database optimized for similarity search over high-dimensional embeddings. Foundational component of RAG pipelines.
Context and detail
Common vector stores. Access control. Audit logging. Encryption.
Related terms
- RAG Security — Security considerations specific to Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines: vector-store access control, corpus integrity, embedding inversion, indirect prompt injection.
- Embedding Inversion — Recovering source text or sensitive features from vector embeddings without direct access to the original content.
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