docarray VS towhee

I’ve heard of DocArray, a library for multimodal data in transit and Pytorch Lightning which is also a tool for multimodal data. These two sound like a promising solution, but I’m not sure how to use it with databases or cloud storage. Do I need to install any additional packages or dependencies?

I'm considering using these tools for a recommender system for analyzing text data like user reviews: DocArray and the EZ-MMLA Toolkit. Can anyone share their experience with the DocArray and EZ-MMLA Toolkit? I would love to hear about others' experiences before making a final decision.

I have been thinking about trying out DocArray and the EZ-MMLA Toolkit .. Has anyone had experience with these two projects?? Let me know what you think!

For some alternatives, I know there’s DocArray where you can handle text, image and audio data. is basically a toolbox for multimodal data and then there should be Haystack which is also let you build search systems and also has to do something with Transformers and LLMs.

DocArray to manipulate data and interact with the storage backend using document store.

It's already been two weeks since the last alpha release of DocArray v2. And since then a lot has happened — we've merged features we're really proud of, and we've cried tears of joy and misery trying to coerce Python into doing what we want. If you want to learn about interesting Python edge cases or follow the advancement of DocArray v2 development then you’ve come to the right place in this blog post!

The German Fashion12k dataset is available for free use by the Jina AI community. After logging into Jina AI Cloud, you can download it directly in DocArray format:

Jina AI’s DocArray library

You could try spaCy. This is the brains of the operation - an open-source NLP library for advanced NLP in Python. Another is DocArray - It's built on top of NumPy and Dask, and good for preprocessing, modeling, and analysis of text data.

As another commenter noted, Milvus is overkill and a "bit much" if you're learning/playing.

A good intro to the field with progression towards a full Milvus implementation could be starting with towhee[0] (which is also supported by Milvus).

towhee has an example to do exactly what you want with CLIP[1].

[0] - https://towhee.io/

[1] - https://github.com/towhee-io/examples/tree/main/image/text_i...

The description of this is kind of confusing but I think the easiest way to understand it is that it is a data processing pipeline of sorts. Take unstructured data and apply transformation and computation. A similar project to this is Towhee (https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee). This project tries to simplify unstructured data processing and provides pretrained models and pipelines from their hub.

Milvus also has incredible flexibility when it comes to choosing an indexing strategy, and we also have a library specifically meant to help vectorize a variety of data called Towhee (https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee).

Benchmarking the models with towhee is as simple as:

The project's homepage is https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee, and you can find more about towhee by going through the documents.

I made a tutorial for building an image search engine with python. The code example is as simple as 10 lines of code, using Towhee and Milvus To put images into the search engine:

Traditionally, I've done this through PyTorch by adding a hook, but this requires knowledge of the model itself (i.e. model arch and layer names). I found https://github.com/Hironsan/awesome-embedding-models but it didn't provide many CV-focused open-source projects. There's also https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee which is great but more targeted towards application development.

You can check the result from the tutorial.