# Does weaviate support binary vectors?

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 14, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715 "2024-03-14T12:54:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![yesletgo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/yesletgo/32/1126_2.png) [@yesletgo](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/yesletgo)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715/1 "2024-03-14T12:54:13Z")

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Does weaviate support binary vectors?

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715/2 "2024-03-14T12:55:34Z")

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Hi @yesletgo !

Welcome to our community! 🤗

Is this what you are looking for?

> **[BQ vector compression | Weaviate - Vector Database](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/configuration/bq-compression)**
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> Binary quantization (BQ) is a technique that reduces the size of a vector index. BQ is available for the flat index type from v1.23 onwards and for the hnsw index type from v1.24.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![yesletgo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/yesletgo/32/1126_2.png) [@yesletgo](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/yesletgo)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715/4 "2024-03-15T01:46:18Z")

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It shouldn’t be what I want. What I mean is whether to support the original vector being binary.

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715/5 "2024-03-15T16:53:59Z")

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I don’t think this is supported 🤔

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**Author:** ![EdgarPE-CS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@EdgarPE-CS](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/EdgarPE-CS)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715/6 "2024-04-08T06:50:44Z")

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Hello!

This is exactly what I would need as well. To bring my own vectors, in binary format. Isn’t it still no support for this?

The mentioned Binary Quantization does much more than what I need.

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/does-weaviate-support-binary-vectors/1715/7 "2024-04-12T13:45:07Z")

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hi @EdgarPE-CS and @yesletgo !

My suggestion is to open up a feature request here:

> **[Issues · weaviate/weaviate](https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/issues)**
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> Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of ...

So we can add it to our roadmap:

> **[Weaviate Core Roadmap | Weaviate - Vector Database](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/roadmap)**
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> Weaviate is an open source project that is hosted on GitHub. GitHub uses issues to request features and to track projects. This page highlights some of the issues that Weaviate is working on for upcoming releases.

Thanks!