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Semantic Kernel Vector Search and OOB Connectors GA Date

Siddharth Mehta 1 Reputation point Microsoft Employee
2026-02-25T07:07:51.4433333+00:00

Semantic Kernel provides vector search capabilities as part of its Vector Store abstractions. Also semantic kernel provides an abstraction for interacting with Vector Stores and a list of out-of-the-box implementations that implement these abstractions for various databases. Features include creating, listing and deleting collections of records, and uploading, retrieving and deleting records. The abstraction makes it easy to experiment with a free or locally hosted Vector Store and then switch to a service when needing to scale up.

For quite some time The Semantic Kernel Vector Store functionality is in RC and since Vector Store functionality is in preview, and improvements that require breaking changes may still occur in limited circumstances before release.

For a Customer Production Scenario what SDK will you recommend, since the Semantic Kernel connector provide necessary abstractions for adding and retrieving data from vector stores for RAG, but since it is in Preview and not GA what do you recommend for Customers ?

Also any plans when will the Vector Store Functionality and Connectors be GA ?

Thanks In Advance !!!.

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