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What are the trade-offs between using Faiss directly within our Python application versus deploying a dedicated vector database like Milvus for our enterprise search engine?

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What are the trade-offs between using Faiss directly within our Python application versus deploying a dedicated vector database like Milvus for our enterprise search engine?
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