Astra DB Java SDK: @Vectorize for automatic vectorization, @Vector only for precomputed embeddings
The Astra DB Java SDK has two vector annotations that are easy to confuse, and picking the wrong one means embeddings are never generated or are stored twice. @Vectorize hands embedding generation to Astra (Vectorize); @Vector stores embeddings you computed yourself. The astra-db-java object-mapping guide's best practices say: "Choose between @Vectorize and @Vector: Use @Vectorize for automatic vectorization, @Vector for pre-computed embeddings." A field may also carry only one special annotation (@DocumentId, @Vectorize, @Lexical, or @Vector), so stacking them fails. When using vector features, always set vectorDimension on the collection (for example 1536 for text-embedding-ada-002) and configure the vectorize provider and model to match.Find related guidance
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