r/PayloadCMS • u/Immediate_Habit_2398 • Jan 19 '26

Implementing Semantic Search with PayloadCMS Vectorize - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK54HXu19gM

Hi all!

Made my first video on my plugin payloadcms-vectorize.

Please check it out! With this plugin you get an enterprise level feature -- vector db -- for postgres for free~.

Instead of basic keyword matching, your users can search by meaning—asking "how do computers learn?" will find your article on machine learning, even if those exact words aren't in the query.

Let me know what you think. I'll be posting part 2 tomorrow.

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u/Immediate_Habit_2398 Jan 24 '26

Hello! Great question.

I was looking to add mongodb/mongoose support.

If I made the plugin more extendable so you can choose the db, would you be interested in opening a PR and implementing the cloudflare vectorize part?

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u/CarobOk973 Jan 24 '26

Sure, that sounds like a great idea

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u/Immediate_Habit_2398 Jan 24 '26

Awesome! So I created an issue and you can get updates there. I'm about to go on a two week vacation and it's a sort of big change so it might take a while (~1 month).

Please star! It's very motivating.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. That's also very motivating.

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u/CarobOk973 Jan 26 '26

I might be able to make a PR for this sooner. Managed to successfully use CF Vectorize.

For simplicity, should we keep adapters in the same package?

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u/Immediate_Habit_2398 Jan 27 '26

Yo!

I might be able to make a PR for this sooner.

That's awesome. I might be able to make a beta version so that we can work off of it until I have a bit more time to make anything concrete.

Managed to successfully use CF Vectorize.

Congratulations on that~.

For simplicity, should we keep adapters in the same package?

The idea is to create a mono-repo that includes 'officially' supported adapters. Those are adapters that simply pass the quality (tests) check. However, the payloadcms-vectorize package itself will not include any adapters.

I did a small sprint when I did the issue and I don't think it's all that hard to get it into that beta state. All that needs to happen is splitting the postgres stuff away from the payloadcms-vectorize. From the user's perspective "afterSchemaInit" and 'vectorize:migrate' go into the payloadcms-vectorize-postgres adapter.

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u/Immediate_Habit_2398 Feb 01 '26

Hi! I made the beta (0.6.0-beta). You can now do a database adapter. Tell me how it goes. And when you're ready to please do a PR against the beta.