Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, today announced the launch of Actian VectorAI DB at the AI Dev 26 x SF conference. The platform is a portable vector database engineered for production AI in regulated, disconnected, and edge environments where cloud-native solutions often face latency and residency challenges. In initial performance testing using the VDBBench methodology, Actian VectorAI DB outperformed leading open-source alternatives by more than 22 times on query throughput.
Extreme Performance: Delivers 745.2 queries/second on 10M vectors—22x faster than leading open-source databases like Milvus and Qdrant in self-hosted tests.
Edge & Offline Ready: Optimized for resource-constrained hardware including NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi, as well as fully disconnected environments.
Regulated Industry Focus: Purpose-built for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and government sectors with strict data sovereignty requirements.
Multimodal Support: Embeds and searches text, images, audio, video, and document formats.
Compliance & Security: Supports HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II configurations with AES-256 encryption.
Developer Friendly: Integrates with Python, JavaScript, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Hugging Face.
Scalability: Retained 72% of throughput when scaling from 1M to 10M vectors, compared to a drop to ~12% in competing models.
Traditional vector databases often assume always-on cloud connectivity, which can create security blind spots and latency issues for autonomous systems and robotics. Actian VectorAI DB allows developers to keep sensitive data under organizational control by bringing the search capability directly to the source.
"Too often, vector search requires data to move outside governed systems," said Emma McGrattan, CTO of Actian and author of Vector Databases for Enterprise AI. "Actian VectorAI DB allows developers to bring AI to the data instead, deploying vector search wherever data resides so governance, sovereignty, and trust remain built into the architecture."
As Gartner predicts that 33% of enterprise applications will include agentic AI by 2028, the need for reliable, local vector search is accelerating. Actian VectorAI DB enables these systems to maintain stateful reasoning and persistent context without the overhead of cloud round-trips, ensuring sub-15ms query latency for responsive, real-world applications.
The database is available now with a 30-day free trial and a Free Community Edition for developer experimentation.
About Actian
Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, empowers enterprises to manage and govern data at scale. Its solutions integrate seamlessly across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments to accelerate the delivery of AI-ready data.
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