Vector Database Academy
Similarity search that stays fast at a hundred million rows.
Indexes, distance metrics, filtering and sharding across pgvector, Qdrant, Pinecone and Azure AI Search — plus the operational reality of reindexing without downtime.
Duration
4 weeks
Content
30 hours
Lessons
36
Level
Intermediate
Students
742
Certified
468
RIVA mentors you through every lesson, lab and assessment in this academy — and knows where you got stuck last time.
What you’ll be able to do
Written as capabilities, not topics. If you can’t do these at the end, the academy didn’t work.
- Choose between HNSW, IVF and flat on evidence
- Combine metadata filters with vector search without wrecking recall
- Reindex a live collection with no downtime
- Budget memory and cost before the bill arrives
Skills you'll build
Tools you'll use
4 modules · 29 lessons
Module outline published. Full lesson list unlocks when the next cohort opens — we don't list lessons before they're recorded.
01Similarity, honestlyCosine, dot product, L2 — and when the choice matters.7 lessons · 2h
Lesson list publishes when the cohort opens.
02Index structuresFlat, IVF and HNSW, with the recall/latency trade-off measured.8 lessons · 2h
Lesson list publishes when the cohort opens.
03FilteringPre- vs. post-filtering and the recall cliff nobody warns you about.7 lessons · 2h
Lesson list publishes when the cohort opens.
04OperationsReindexing live, backups and capacity planning.7 lessons · 2h
Lesson list publishes when the cohort opens.
Projects you can ship
Retail Catalogue Copilot
Merchandisers ask for products in plain language — 'waterproof, under ₹3,000, in stock in Pune' — and get filtered, ranked results with the reasoning shown.
Retail · 20h · Associate
Contract Clause Intelligence
Compare an incoming contract against the company's standard positions and surface every deviation, ranked by risk, with the exact language that differs.
Legal · 24h · Professional
On completion
ReveloSoft Certified Associate
You can build a working AI feature on your own and explain the trade-offs you made. Independent, with a senior engineer within reach.
90-minute assessment · pass mark 75% · QR-verifiable credential
- Hold the Foundation certificate
- Complete two Associate-level academies
- Pass the mixed-format assessment including live coding
- Ship two portfolio projects with a written architecture note