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title: Data Sinks | Developer Documentation
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# Data Sinks

Once your input documents have been processed, they’re ready to be sent to their final destination: a vector database.

If you don’t want to set up and host a vector database, we offer a full-managed option in which we host the vector database for you. Alternatively, you can host your own vector database and connect it to Index:

Once the vector database is setup, they will be store using a [Embedding Model](/llamaparse/cloud-index/integrations/embedding_models/index.md) of choice and will be ready to be used in your RAG use case ➡️

For the time being, the term “Data Sink” means a vector database. However, this definition of a Data Sink may expand in the future.