---
identifier: draft-imran-vector-db-fad-00
section: "5.10"
title: "Vector Databases Are a Fad"
summary: "Withdrawn in full. See errata 7.2."
state: retracted
confidence: null
revised: 2025-11-14
expires: 2026-05-18
retires: []
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

This paper is **retracted in full**. The text is retained rather than deleted, per Section
2.2: nothing here is deleted.

The central claim failed. What the paper was actually right about was narrower and less
quotable. See erratum 7.2.

The original body is not yet migrated from the prototype.