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Welcome to ChromaDB Cookbook

This is a collection of small guides and recipes to help you get started with ChromaDB.

Latest ChromaDB version: 0.5.0

New and Noteworthy

  • ⁉️FAQs - Our brand new FAQ and Commonly Encountered Issues section - 📅9-May-2024
  • 🔥Ollama Embeddings - We've enhanced the content to include information about Ollama embedding models with recommendations which models to use - 📅9-May-2024

Getting Started

We suggest you first head to the Concepts section to get familiar with ChromaDB concepts, such as Documents, Metadata, Embeddings, etc.

Once you're comfortable with the concepts, you can jump to the Installation section to install ChromaDB.

Core Topics:

  • Filters - Learn to filter data in ChromaDB using metadata and document filters
  • Resource Requirements - Understand the resource requirements for running ChromaDB
  • ✨Multi-Tenancy - Learn how to implement multi-tenancy in ChromaDB

Running ChromaDB

  • CLI - Running ChromaDB via the CLI
  • Docker - Running ChromaDB in Docker
  • Docker Compose - Running ChromaDB in Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes - Running ChromaDB in Kubernetes (Minikube)

Integrations

  • ✨LangChain - Integrating ChromaDB with LangChain
  • ✨LlamaIndex - Integrating ChromaDB with LlamaIndex
  • ✨Ollama - Integrating ChromaDB with Ollama

The Ecosystem

Clients

Below is a list of available clients for ChromaDB.

User Interfaces

  • VectorAdmin (MintPlex Labs) - An open-source web-based admin interface for vector databases, including ChromaDB
  • ChromaDB UI (Community maintained) - A web-based UI for ChromaDB

CLI Tooling

  • Chroma CLI (Community maintained) - Early Alpha
  • Chroma Data Pipes (Community maintained) - A CLI tool for importing and exporting data from ChromaDB
  • Chroma Ops (Community maintained) - A maintenance CLI tool for ChromaDB

Strategies

  • Backup - Backing up ChromaDB data
  • Batch Imports - Importing data in batches
  • Multi-Tenancy - Running multiple ChromaDB instances
  • Keyword Search - Searching for keywords in ChromaDB
  • Memory Management - Managing memory in ChromaDB
  • Time-based Queries - Querying data based on timestamps
  • ✨'Coming Soon Testing with Chroma - learn how to test your GenAI apps that include Chroma.
  • ✨'Coming Soon Monitoring Chroma - learn how to monitor your Chroma instance.
  • ✨'Coming Soon Building Chroma clients - learn how to build clients for Chroma.
  • ✨'Coming Soon Creating the perfect Embedding Function (wrapper) - learn the best practices for creating your own embedding function.
  • ✨ Multi-User Basic Auth Plugin - learn how to build a multi-user basic authentication plugin for Chroma.
  • ✨ CORS Configuration For JS Browser apps - learn how to configure CORS for Chroma.

Get Help

Missing something? Let us know by opening an issue, reach out on Discord (look for @taz).