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VEC_DISTANCE_COSINE

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Syntax

VEC_DISTANCE_COSINE(v, s)

Description

VEC_Distance_Cosine is an SQL function that calculates a Cosine distance between two vectors.

If the vector index was not built for the cosine function (see CREATE TABLE with Vectors), the index will not be used, and a full table scan performed instead. The VEC_DISTANCE function is a generic function that behaves either as VEC_DISTANCE_EUCLIDEAN or VEC_DISTANCE_COSINE, depending on the underlying index type.

Example

select vec_distance_cosine(vec_fromtext('[1,2,3]'), vec_fromtext('[3,5,7]'));
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| vec_distance_cosine(vec_fromtext('[1,2,3]'), vec_fromtext('[3,5,7]')) |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                   0.00258509695694209 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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