chroma VS uvicorn

Package installer for Python (pip), we use this for installing the Python-based packages, such as Jupyter Lab, and we're going to use this for installing other Python-based tools like the Chroma DB vector database

Optional: You can use SillyTavern[1] for a more "rich" chat experience

The above lets me chat, at least superficially, with my friend. It's nice for simple interactions and banter; I've found it to be a positive and reflective experience.

0. https://www.trychroma.com/

Chroma DB is a newer entrant in the vector database arena, designed specifically for handling high-dimensional color vectors. It's particularly useful for applications in digital media, e-commerce, and content discovery, where color similarity plays a crucial role in search and recommendation algorithms.

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For Python I believe Chroma [1] can be used embedded.

For Go I recently started building chromem-go, inspired by the Chroma interface: https://github.com/philippgille/chromem-go

It's neither advanced nor for scale yet, but the RAG demo works.

[1] https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma

The formatting is a bit off.

The web app is here: https://jumblejournal.org

The DB used is here: https://www.trychroma.com/

Whether you’re navigating through well-known options like SQLite, enriched with the sqlite-vss extension, or exploring other avenues like Chroma, an open-source vector database, selecting the right tool is paramount. This article compares these two choices, guiding you through the pros and cons of each, helping you choose the right tool for storing and querying vector embeddings for your project.

Create a new project directory for our example project. Next, we need to clone the Chroma repository to get started. At the root of your project directory let's clone Chroma into it:

FastAPI & Uvicorn

This tells Heroku to run uvicorn, which is a web server implementation in Python.

FastAPI uses Uvicorn, an ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) web server implementation for Python.

Now, let’s run our FastAPI application using Uvicorn: uvicorn main:app --reload

Uvicorn + Starlette 8k requests/s

I switched to Hypercorn because Uvicorn currently supports HTTP/1.1 and WebSockets as mentioned at https://www.uvicorn.org

This will set up Chroma and run it as a server with uvicorn, making port 8000 accessible outside the net docker network. The command also mounts a persistent docker volume for Chroma's database, found at chroma/chroma from your project's root.

There's an open discussion under the Uvicorn repository and we prepared a repository for Reproduction GitHub Repo

FastAPI is a popular Python Web framework that developers use to create RESTful APIs. It is based on Pydantic and Python-type hints that assist in the serialization, deserialization, and validation of data. In this tutorial, we will use FastAPI to create a simple "Hello World" application. We test and run the application locally. FastAPI requires a ASGI server to run the application production such as Uvicorn.

- [3] https://github.com/encode/uvicorn/issues/527