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Chroma

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Chroma is a developer-friendly vector database (open-core) for embeddings storage and similarity search, popular in RAG prototypes and apps. Low ops friction early. Scale and multi-tenant governance may push larger installs toward Milvus/Qdrant/pgvector. Search infrastructure for AI bash pip install chromadb python client for javascript, npm install chromadb! for client-server mode, chroma run --path /chromadbpath Our hosted service, Chroma Cloud, powers serverless vector, hybrid, and full-text search. It's extremely fast, cost-effective, scalable and painless. Create a DB and try it out in under 30 seconds with $5 of free credits. python import chromadb setup Chroma in-memory, for easy prototyping. Can add persistence easily!

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  • features_map · present · technologies/chroma/features.md
  • readme · present · technologies/chroma/README.md

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Corpus documents (16)

map_edge · 5

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  • chroma → memory-state-persistence
  • chroma → r2-31-memory-architecture
  • chroma → wt-data-context

tech_features · 1

  • Chroma · features

tech_quote · 9

  • Chroma · chroma-docs
  • Chroma · chroma-docs
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  • Chroma · chroma-github
  • Chroma · faiss-contrast
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tech_readme · 1

  • Chroma