Chroma

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GitHub Rust Apache-2.0

Description

Developer-friendly open-source embedding database for RAG.

Key Features

  • Easy to use — RAG in a few lines
  • Python-first — Tight ML ecosystem integration
  • Local mode — Embedded runtime
  • Client/server — Flexible deployment
  • Multimodal — Text/image/audio

Use Cases

💡 Quickly prototype vector search.
💡 Storage backend for LangChain/LlamaIndex.
💡 Small RAG demos and teaching.

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Quick Start

pip install chromadb
import chromadb
client = chromadb.PersistentClient(path='./db')
col = client.create_collection('docs')

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