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[FEA]: Add support for Kinetica as a VDB sink

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Description

Is this a new feature, an improvement, or a change to existing functionality?

New Feature

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Currently preventing usage

Please provide a clear description of problem this feature solves

We at Kinetica would like to develop a feature which enables the nv-ingest services to use kinetica as a vdb sink. Right now, it seems the only sink available to use is Milvus. We would like to develop this feature so that kinetica is available as an alternative.

From the code https://github.com/NVIDIA/nv-ingest/blob/main/src/nv_ingest/modules/sinks/vdb_task_sink.py it seems there is no way to develop such a feature since it is tied to the Milvus libraries only. We are in the process of developing the Morpheus Vector Database Service for Kinetica as available in the issue https://github.com/nv-morpheus/Morpheus/issues/2058.

Describe the feature, and optionally a solution or implementation and any alternatives

Ideally, we are planning to develop a module like vdb_task_sink_kinetica.py which will enable Kinetica to be used as a vdb sink instead of Milvus.

Additional context

I think the module https://github.com/NVIDIA/nv-ingest/blob/main/src/nv_ingest/modules/sinks/vdb_task_sink.py needs to be altered suitably so that the Milvus specific code is factored out to a different module.

Any suggestions to how we may proceed would be extremely helpful.

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Research direction

Start by reading src/nv_ingest/modules/sinks/vdb_task_sink.py to understand how the current Milvus-specific sink is structured. Review the linked Morpheus issue about the Kinetica Vector Database Service and clarify the integration boundary before proposing the module or refactor. Done means Kinetica is available as an alternative VDB sink without leaving the existing Milvus path unusable.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend, databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
28/100

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