1. 200ms+ Network Latency: Every vector search from India to us-east-1 adds ~200ms of round-trip latency before the LLM even starts generating.

2. Paused Free Tiers: Free tier pods pause after a few days of inactivity, breaking live projects and demos.

3. Boilerplate Overload: Raw vector databases only store float arrays—you still have to wire up document chunking, external embedding APIs, BM25 keyword + dense vector Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), and TTL jobs for agent session memory.

Today, I'm excited to launch Iceberg DB — a serverless vector database and cognitive memory platform hosted in Mumbai (ap-south-1).

⚡ What Iceberg DB Gives You Out of the Box

• <20ms Query Latency in India: Hosted in Mumbai with 100% Indian data residency (DPDP Act 2023 compliant).

• Built-in Hybrid Search (RRF): Combines dense semantic vectors + sparse BM25 keyword search in a single API call (alpha slider from 0.0 to 1.0).

• Native 4-Tier AI Agent Memory: Give your AI agents persistent memory across sessions (short_term with 1hr TTL, episodic with 30-day TTL, long_term, and semantic).

• Built-in Neural Embeddings: Send raw text or upload PDFs directly—no separate OpenAI or Cohere embedding API key required.

• Forever Free Tier (Never Pauses): 100,000 vectors free forever, zero cold-start pausing, no credit card required.

🐍 5-Line Python Quickstart (pip install iceberg-sdk)

from iceberg import Client

client = Client(api_key="ib_your_key")

# 1. Create a collection & index raw text (embeddings generated automatically)
client.create_collection("my_docs")
client.index_text("my_docs", "Iceberg DB is hosted in Mumbai with sub-20ms latency.")

# 2. Hybrid Search (Dense + BM25)
results = client.search("my_docs", "where is Iceberg hosted?", search_type="hybrid")
for r in results:
    print(f"{r.score:.2f} - {r.text}")

# 3. Persistent Agent Memory
client.memory.remember("agent_01", "User prefers concise Python code", memory_type="long_term")
memories = client.memory.recall("agent_01", "how should I format answers?")

🔗 Try It Live

• Website & Interactive Search Demo: https://icebergdb.in

• Cloud Console (Get Free API Key in 30s): https://dashboard.icebergdb.in/signup

• Documentation: https://icebergdb.in/docs

• Interactive API Playground: https://api.icebergdb.in/docs

I'd love for you to test it out and share your feedback!