PUBLISHER: The Business Research Company | PRODUCT CODE: 1888511
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Vector search acceleration refers to a set of specialized hardware and software innovations designed to enable high-speed similarity search or approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search across large, high-dimensional datasets. As organizations increasingly leverage AI and machine learning, data such as text embeddings, images, and audio signals are represented as vectors capturing their semantic meaning. Accelerating vector search enhances semantic retrieval, personalized recommendations, and AI-driven analytics, acting as a critical enabler for next-generation applications while improving operational efficiency and user experience across industries.
The key components of vector search acceleration are hardware, software, and services. Hardware includes high-performance computing systems, such as GPUs, TPUs, and specialized accelerators, built to efficiently process large-scale vector embeddings and similarity searches for AI and machine learning applications. These solutions are deployed through on-premises and cloud models and support key applications, including recommendation systems, image and video search, natural language processing, fraud detection, and others. The primary end-users include banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), healthcare, retail and e-commerce, information technology (IT) and telecommunications, media and entertainment, and others.
Note that the outlook for this market is being affected by rapid changes in trade relations and tariffs globally. The report will be updated prior to delivery to reflect the latest status, including revised forecasts and quantified impact analysis. The report's Recommendations and Conclusions sections will be updated to give strategies for entities dealing with the fast-moving international environment.
The rapid escalation of U.S. tariffs and the resulting trade tensions in spring 2025 are significantly impacting the information technology sector, particularly in hardware manufacturing, data infrastructure, and software deployment. Higher duties on imported semiconductors, circuit boards, and networking equipment have raised production and operational costs for tech firms, cloud service providers, and data centers. Companies relying on globally sourced components for laptops, servers, and consumer electronics are facing longer lead times and increased pricing pressures. In parallel, tariffs on specialized software tools and retaliatory measures from key international markets have disrupted global IT supply chains and reduced overseas demand for U.S.-developed technologies. To navigate these challenges, the sector is accelerating investments in domestic chip fabrication, diversifying supplier bases, and adopting AI-driven automation to enhance operational resilience and cost efficiency.
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The vector search acceleration market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $1.27 billion in 2024 to $1.61 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.9%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increasing adoption of AI-driven search systems, rising demand for real-time data retrieval, growing enterprise data volumes, expansion of cloud-based analytics solutions, and increasing implementation of semantic search tools.
The vector search acceleration market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $4.11 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.5%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to rising integration of generative AI with search platforms, increasing demand for low-latency vector databases, expanding deployment of AI accelerators in data centers, growing investment in scalable vector infrastructure, and heightened focus on edge-based vector search optimization. Key trends in the forecast period include technological advancements in neural retrieval models, innovation in vector compression and quantization methods, development of hybrid search architectures, increasing research and development in AI-driven search acceleration, and advancements in GPU and TPU optimization for vector workloads.
The rising adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered applications is expected to drive the growth of the vector search acceleration market in the coming years. AI-powered applications are software programs that utilize AI technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, to perform tasks, make decisions, or provide insights automatically. Adoption is increasing as businesses seek to automate processes and enable faster, data-driven decision-making. Vector search acceleration benefits from this trend, as AI-driven tools increasingly require rapid and efficient retrieval of complex, high-dimensional data. For example, in 2024, according to Eurostat, a Luxembourg-based statistical agency, 13.5% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees implemented AI technologies in their operations, up from 8.0% in 2023. Therefore, the rising adoption of AI-powered applications is fueling growth in the vector search acceleration market.
Key companies in the vector search acceleration market are focusing on technological advancements such as vectorization to enhance processing speed, improve search accuracy, and optimize handling of high-dimensional data for AI applications. Vectorization converts data, such as text, images, or other information, into numerical vectors (arrays of numbers) so computers can efficiently process, compare, and analyze them. For instance, in September 2025, Dnotitia Inc., a South Korea-based company specializing in vector database technology, launched the VDPU IP core, the first accelerator IP designed specifically for vector databases. Its features include dedicated processing cores for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search, on-chip memory hierarchies optimized for high-dimensional vector operations, and native support for multiple distance metrics. This integration delivers significantly higher query throughput and reduced latency for large-scale generative AI and recommendation systems, though it requires hardware integration and presents a higher barrier to entry compared to software-only solutions.
In October 2025, Elastic N.V., a Netherlands-based enterprise search, observability, and cybersecurity solutions provider, acquired Jina AI for an undisclosed amount. Through this acquisition, Elastic aims to enhance its Search AI capabilities by integrating Jina AI's multimodal and multilingual model technologies to deliver more contextually aware and scalable AI-driven search experiences. Jina AI GmbH, based in Germany, provides an open-source, cloud-based search foundation for multimodal AI applications.
Major players in the vector search acceleration market are Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Meta Platforms Incorporated, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Intel Corporation, Oracle Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Spotify, Databricks Incorporated, MongoDB Incorporated, Elastic Naamloze Vennootschap, SingleStore Incorporated, Pinecone Systems Incorporated, Redis Limited, Pureinsights Technology Limited, Nextbrick Solutions Limited, Chroma Labs Incorporated, The Apache Software Foundation, Vespa Technologies Incorporated, Qdrant Limited Liability Company, Weaviate Besloten Vennootschap, OpenSource Connections Limited, and Zilliz Limited.
North America was the largest region in the vector search acceleration market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in vector search acceleration report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa.
The countries covered in the vector search acceleration market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.
The vector search acceleration market includes revenues earned by providing services such as consulting and integration services, managed vector search services, and real-time recommendation. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The vector search acceleration market also includes sales of graphics processing units (GPUs), tensor processing units (TPUs), neural processing units (NPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Values in this market are 'factory gate' values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
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