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Overview
Developed byChroma
Founded byJeff Huber and Anton Troynikov
LicenseApache 2.0
Open source✓ Open Source
Primary languagePython
Use caseembedded vector database for rapid AI application prototyping
Technical
Protocols
HTTP APIREST API
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ChromaDB

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Open-source embedded vector database for AI application prototyping

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programming language

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primary use case

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embedded vector database for rapid AI application prototyping○UnverifiedHighFresh1
vector database for embeddings storage and similarity search○UnverifiedHighFresh1
vector database for AI applications○UnverifiedHighFresh1
semantic search applications○UnverifiedHighFresh1

license type

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supports feature

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embedding storage○UnverifiedHighFresh1
similarity search○UnverifiedHighFresh1
document embeddings○UnverifiedHighFresh1
metadata filtering○UnverifiedHighFresh1

programming language support

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developed by

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supports language

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JavaScript○UnverifiedHighFresh1

deployment mode

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embedded○UnverifiedHighFresh1
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deployment option

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supports similarity search

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cosine similarity○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports protocol

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HTTP API○UnverifiedHighFresh1
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written in

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supports api

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REST API○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

founded by

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Jeff Huber and Anton Troynikov○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

supports embedding

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OpenAI embeddings○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

api type

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REST API○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

supports embedding models

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Sentence Transformers○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
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