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Weaviate Database Mastery

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Deploy Weaviate with Docker and configure scalable, production-ready schemas

  • Design complex data models with cross-references and advanced vectorization

  • Implement hybrid search techniques combining keyword and semantic retrieval

  • Build multimodal search systems integrating text and image data

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April 2026

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This course is part of the Vector Databases for Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Guide Specialization
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There are 8 modules in this course

This module focuses on the essential first step: setting up and running your database environment. You will learn how to use Docker Compose to launch a Weaviate instance locally, understand its configuration, and define a data schema that tells the database how to structure incoming information.

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5 videos3 readings6 assignments

Model Data in Weaviate is an intermediate, project‑based course for developers and data professionals. You’ll design high‑performance, multi‑class schemas with relational links, import interconnected data, benchmark query latency, and prove performance gains, leaving you with a portfolio‑ready project and a repeatable methodology for optimizing vector‑search architecture.

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4 videos2 readings2 assignments1 ungraded lab

Query Weaviate Smartly is an intermediate course for developers and engineers. You’ll master advanced Weaviate Python client queries for semantic, vector, and hybrid search, analyze performance traces in Weaviate Cloud, eliminate latency bottlenecks, and build faster, more relevant, production‑grade search applications.

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3 videos2 readings2 assignments1 ungraded lab

Enable Vectorization in Weaviate is an intermediate, hands‑on course for developers and ML engineers. You’ll configure Weaviate’s built‑in vectorizers (OpenAI, Cohere) in Docker, define a schema for automatic embedding, ingest data, and conduct a cost‑benefit analysis, delivering a production‑ready, efficient vector database.

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1 video1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab

Blend Hybrid Search is an intermediate course for developers and ML engineers. You’ll build a search system that fuses BM25 keyword matching with dense vector semantics, tune weighting parameters, evaluate with NDCG, and create a reusable script and data‑driven methodology for maximizing relevance in any AI‑powered search application.

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3 videos2 readings2 assignments1 ungraded lab

Unlock Multimodal Search is an intermediate, hands‑on course for developers and ML engineers. You’ll configure a Weaviate schema for image and text embeddings, ingest multimodal data, run cross‑modal queries, and measure precision, delivering a working image‑to‑text search demo and the skills to build and validate sophisticated multimodal AI applications.

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3 videos2 readings3 assignments

This module teaches search engineers how to leverage generative AI to accelerate Weaviate development. Learners will generate complex GraphQL queries, obtain AI‑suggested hybrid‑search parameters, and debug performance issues—while applying expert prompting patterns and rigorously validating every AI‑generated suggestion for correctness and production‑readiness. 

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2 readings1 assignment

In this Module, Enterprise Multimodal Search Engine project, you’ll design and implement a production‑ready Weaviate search API that handles text, image, and multimodal queries with hybrid scoring, integrating schema design, vectorization, and systematic parameter tuning. Building on Short Courses 3.1–3.6 (and optionally Long Course 2), you’ll evaluate search quality (Precision@5, NDCG@5) and submit an AI‑graded, portfolio‑ready deliverable that meets real‑world enterprise requirements.

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2 readings1 assignment

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