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Databricks AI Search

Databricks AI Search is the current Databricks name, previously Mosaic AI Vector Search (since June 2026).

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Managed search over Unity Catalog data, covering vector similarity plus hybrid keyword-similarity search over the same index.

  • It outgrew pure vector search - on a storage-optimized endpoint you can now build an index with no embedding columns at all and search it with BM25 keyword scoring, a capability still in Beta.
  • Its high-QPS mode is enabled by default and yet changes nothing for the endpoints you already run - existing endpoints are pointedly left alone.

Limitations: Row- and column-level permissions aren't supported, indexes can't be cloned into another workspace, the _id column name is reserved, and index capacity is provisioned from the source table size at creation, so starting small risks capacity-exhausted errors. Query results default to 10,000 rows for ANN and 200 for hybrid or full-text search with a 10 MB response limit, all raisable on request, and storage-optimized endpoints add limits such as no continuous sync, embedding dimensions divisible by 16, and no CMK or FedRAMP support.

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Category
AI / ML
In use from
June 2026
Also known as
Mosaic AI Vector Search, Databricks Vector Search, Vector Search
Verified
2026-08-20

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