`langchain.vectorstores.chroma`.Chroma¶

class langchain.vectorstores.chroma.Chroma(collection_name: str = 'langchain', embedding_function: Optional[Embeddings] = None, persist_directory: Optional[str] = None, client_settings: Optional[chromadb.config.Settings] = None, collection_metadata: Optional[Dict] = None, client: Optional[chromadb.Client] = None, relevance_score_fn: Optional[Callable[[float], float]] = None)[source]¶

Bases: VectorStore

Wrapper around ChromaDB embeddings platform.

To use, you should have the chromadb python package installed.

Example

from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
vectorstore = Chroma("langchain_store", embeddings)

Initialize with Chroma client.

Methods

`__init__`([collection_name, ...])	Initialize with Chroma client.
`aadd_documents`(documents, **kwargs)	Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`aadd_texts`(texts[, metadatas])	Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`add_documents`(documents, **kwargs)	Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`add_texts`(texts[, metadatas, ids])	Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`afrom_documents`(documents, embedding, **kwargs)	Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.
`afrom_texts`(texts, embedding[, metadatas])	Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.
`amax_marginal_relevance_search`(query[, k, ...])	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector`(...)	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`as_retriever`(**kwargs)
`asearch`(query, search_type, **kwargs)	Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.
`asimilarity_search`(query[, k])	Return docs most similar to query.
`asimilarity_search_by_vector`(embedding[, k])	Return docs most similar to embedding vector.
`asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores`(query)	Return docs most similar to query.
`delete`([ids])	Delete by vector IDs.
`delete_collection`()	Delete the collection.
`from_documents`(documents[, embedding, ids, ...])	Create a Chroma vectorstore from a list of documents.
`from_texts`(texts[, embedding, metadatas, ...])	Create a Chroma vectorstore from a raw documents.
`get`([ids, where, limit, offset, ...])	Gets the collection.
`max_marginal_relevance_search`(query[, k, ...])	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector`(...)	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`persist`()	Persist the collection.
`search`(query, search_type, **kwargs)	Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.
`similarity_search`(query[, k, filter])	Run similarity search with Chroma.
`similarity_search_by_vector`(embedding[, k, ...])	Return docs most similar to embedding vector.
`similarity_search_by_vector_with_relevance_scores`(...)	Return docs most similar to embedding vector and similarity score.
`similarity_search_with_relevance_scores`(query)	Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].
`similarity_search_with_score`(query[, k, filter])	Run similarity search with Chroma with distance.
`update_document`(document_id, document)	Update a document in the collection.

Attributes

embeddings

Access the query embedding object if available.

async aadd_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) → List[str]¶

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters: (List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.
Returns: List of IDs of the added texts.
Return type: List[str]

async aadd_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[str]¶: Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

add_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) → List[str]¶

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters: (List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.
Returns: List of IDs of the added texts.
Return type: List[str]

add_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[str][source]¶

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

texts (Iterable[str]) – Texts to add to the vectorstore.
metadatas (Optional[List[dict]], optional) – Optional list of metadatas.
ids (Optional[List[str]], optional) – Optional list of IDs.

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

async classmethod afrom_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) → VST¶: Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

async classmethod afrom_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → VST¶: Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

async amax_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶: Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

async amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶: Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

as_retriever(**kwargs: Any) → VectorStoreRetriever¶

async asearch(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶: Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

async asimilarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶: Return docs most similar to query.

async asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶: Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

async asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶: Return docs most similar to query.

delete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → None[source]¶

Delete by vector IDs.

Parameters: ids – List of ids to delete.

delete_collection() → None[source]¶: Delete the collection.

classmethod from_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Optional[Embeddings] = None, ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, collection_name: str = 'langchain', persist_directory: Optional[str] = None, client_settings: Optional[chromadb.config.Settings] = None, client: Optional[chromadb.Client] = None, collection_metadata: Optional[Dict] = None, **kwargs: Any) → Chroma[source]¶

Create a Chroma vectorstore from a list of documents.

If a persist_directory is specified, the collection will be persisted there. Otherwise, the data will be ephemeral in-memory.

Parameters

collection_name (str) – Name of the collection to create.
persist_directory (Optional[str]) – Directory to persist the collection.
ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of document IDs. Defaults to None.
documents (List[Document]) – List of documents to add to the vectorstore.
embedding (Optional[Embeddings]) – Embedding function. Defaults to None.
client_settings (Optional[chromadb.config.Settings]) – Chroma client settings
collection_metadata (Optional[Dict]) – Collection configurations. Defaults to None.

Returns

Chroma vectorstore.

Return type

Chroma

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Optional[Embeddings] = None, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, collection_name: str = 'langchain', persist_directory: Optional[str] = None, client_settings: Optional[chromadb.config.Settings] = None, client: Optional[chromadb.Client] = None, collection_metadata: Optional[Dict] = None, **kwargs: Any) → Chroma[source]¶

Create a Chroma vectorstore from a raw documents.

If a persist_directory is specified, the collection will be persisted there. Otherwise, the data will be ephemeral in-memory.

Parameters

texts (List[str]) – List of texts to add to the collection.
collection_name (str) – Name of the collection to create.
persist_directory (Optional[str]) – Directory to persist the collection.
embedding (Optional[Embeddings]) – Embedding function. Defaults to None.
metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – List of metadatas. Defaults to None.
ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of document IDs. Defaults to None.
client_settings (Optional[chromadb.config.Settings]) – Chroma client settings
collection_metadata (Optional[Dict]) – Collection configurations. Defaults to None.

Returns

Chroma vectorstore.

Return type

Chroma

get(ids: Optional[OneOrMany[ID]] = None, where: Optional[Where] = None, limit: Optional[int] = None, offset: Optional[int] = None, where_document: Optional[WhereDocument] = None, include: Optional[List[str]] = None) → Dict[str, Any][source]¶

Gets the collection.

Parameters

ids – The ids of the embeddings to get. Optional.
where – A Where type dict used to filter results by. E.g. {“color” : “red”, “price”: 4.20}. Optional.
limit – The number of documents to return. Optional.
offset – The offset to start returning results from. Useful for paging results with limit. Optional.
where_document – A WhereDocument type dict used to filter by the documents. E.g. {$contains: {“text”: “hello”}}. Optional.
include – A list of what to include in the results. Can contain “embeddings”, “metadatas”, “documents”. Ids are always included. Defaults to [“metadatas”, “documents”]. Optional.

max_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance. Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

query – Text to look up documents similar to.
k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.
lambda_mult – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance. Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

embedding – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.
lambda_mult – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

persist() → None[source]¶

Persist the collection.

This can be used to explicitly persist the data to disk. It will also be called automatically when the object is destroyed.

search(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶: Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

similarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]¶

Run similarity search with Chroma.

Parameters

query (str) – Query text to search for.
k (int) – Number of results to return. Defaults to 4.
filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

Returns

List of documents most similar to the query text.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]¶

Return docs most similar to embedding vector. :param embedding: Embedding to look up documents similar to. :type embedding: List[float] :param k: Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4. :type k: int :param filter: Filter by metadata. Defaults to None. :type filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]]

Returns: List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

similarity_search_by_vector_with_relevance_scores(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]][source]¶

Return docs most similar to embedding vector and similarity score.

Parameters

embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

Returns

List of documents most similar to the query text and cosine distance in float for each. Lower score represents more similarity.

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters

query – input text
k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs –
kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

similarity_search_with_score(query: str, k: int = 4, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]][source]¶

Run similarity search with Chroma with distance.

Parameters

query (str) – Query text to search for.
k (int) – Number of results to return. Defaults to 4.
filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

Returns

List of documents most similar to the query text and cosine distance in float for each. Lower score represents more similarity.

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

update_document(document_id: str, document: Document) → None[source]¶

Update a document in the collection.

Parameters

document_id (str) – ID of the document to update.
document (Document) – Document to update.

property embeddings: Optional[langchain.embeddings.base.Embeddings]¶: Access the query embedding object if available.

langchain.vectorstores.chroma.Chroma¶

Examples using Chroma¶

`langchain.vectorstores.chroma`.Chroma¶