Chroma

Chroma is a database for building AI applications with embeddings.

Installation and Setup

pip

pip install langchain-chroma

VectorStore

There exists a wrapper around Chroma vector databases, allowing you to use it as a vectorstore, whether for semantic search or example selection.

from langchain_chroma import Chroma

For a more detailed walkthrough of the Chroma wrapper, see this notebook

Retriever

from langchain_classic.retrievers import SelfQueryRetriever

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