Announcements and updates

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New feature

The Fields field now supports four new data types: ARRAY_STRING, ARRAY_INT, ARRAY_FLOAT, and ARRAY_LONG.

2025-12-09

Shanghai

Shenzhen

Beijing

Hangzhou

Zhangjiakou

Filter-based retrieval

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New specifications

Five new instance types are added for storage-optimized clusters.

2025-08-21

Shanghai

Shenzhen

Beijing

Hangzhou

Zhangjiakou

• Specifications

• Billing

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New feature

The Fields field now supports the Long data type.

2025-03-17

Shanghai

Shenzhen

Beijing

Hangzhou

Zhangjiakou

• Create a collection

• Insert a document

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New feature

Added the multi-vector retrieval feature.

2024-10-09

Shanghai

Shenzhen

Beijing

Hangzhou

Zhangjiakou

Multi-vector retrieval

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New regions available

The Serverless specifications for DashVector are now available in the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing regions.

2024-07-10

Shanghai

Shenzhen

Beijing

Activate the service

New specifications

DashVector now offers Serverless specifications.

2024-07-08

Hangzhou

Zhangjiakou

• Specifications

• Billing

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New regions available

The service is now available in the Shanghai and Shenzhen regions.

2024-04-26

Shanghai

Shenzhen

New region available

The service is now available in the Zhangjiakou region.

2024-04-25

Zhangjiakou

New feature

Added the feature to access the service from a virtual private cloud (VPC) using an internal same-region endpoint.

2024-04-22

Hangzhou

Beijing

• Virtual private cloud

• Service-linked role for Vector Retrieval Service DashVector

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New region available

The service is now available in the Beijing region.

2024-03-29

Beijing

New feature

Added the group query feature.

2024-03-25

Hangzhou

• Concept: Grouped vector retrieval

• API: Retrieve documents by group

New feature

Added the access control feature for cluster instances.

2024-03-25

Hangzhou

Access control

Feature optimization

Optimized document operations:

• The Insert document and Insert or update document operations now support automatic generation of document IDs. The document ID is no longer a required field.

• The Update document operation now supports partial updates. The vector parameter is no longer a required field.

• The Insert document, Insert or update document, Update document, and Delete document operations now return results. You can retrieve the operation result based on the document ID.

2024-03-25

Hangzhou

• Insert a document

• Update a document

• Insert or update a document

• Delete a document

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New tutorials

Added tutorials on how to generate text embeddings, image embeddings, and multimodal embeddings. You can generate embeddings by calling an API or using an open source model.

2024-01-17

Hangzhou

• Generate text embeddings

• Generate image embeddings

• Generate multimodal embeddings

New feature

Added the dynamic vector quantization feature.

2024-01-23

Hangzhou

Dynamic vector quantization

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Commercial release

Vector Retrieval Service DashVector is now commercially available. The service is sold based on cluster instances. You can create a free trial cluster to try out and test the product.

2023-12-15

Hangzhou

Billing

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New feature

The Java SDK is officially released.

2023-10-19

Hangzhou

Java SDK

New feature

Added the feature to perform match queries using filter conditions.

2023-10-19

Hangzhou

Details

New feature

Added support for sparse vectors. You can use sparse vectors to perform keyword-aware vector retrieval.

2023-10-20

Hangzhou

Keyword-aware retrieval

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Public preview release

Vector Retrieval Service DashVector is now in public preview. The service is free of charge during the public preview period. Access through unencrypted connections is permanently disabled.

2023-09-18

Hangzhou

Getting Started

New feature

Added the feature to perform similarity searches based on a primary key (and its corresponding vector).

2023-09-26

Hangzhou

Details

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Invitational preview release

Vector Retrieval Service DashVector is now in invitational preview.

DashVector is built on the Proxima kernel, an efficient vector engine developed in-house by Tongyi Lab. It provides a cloud-native, fully managed vector retrieval service with horizontal scalability.

2023-08-11

Hangzhou

Getting Started