github.com• Apr 5, 2024• 1 min read
Show HN: Chromem-go – Embeddable vector database for GoHey HN!When I wanted to build a RAG app in Go end of last year, I was surprised about the lack of options for a simple, embeddable DB.- Pinecone is proprietary / hosted ony, Qdrant and Milvus not embeddable, Chroma only embeddable in Python and Weaviate only embeddable in Python or TS/JS.- SQLite with the sqlite-vss extension and DuckDB can only be used from Go with CGO. Same for the C++ libraries Faiss, Annoy and USearch.- Some of the LangChain-style Go libraries have a rudimentary implementation, but either lacking persistence, aren't performance optimized or just generally bring a ton of dependencies due to their nature of being an orchestration library and trying to support all kinds of LLMs and third party vector stores etc.This lead me to create chromem-go, which initially took inspiration from the simple Chroma interface, but now deviating more from it:- Embeddable in Go. No need for running a separate server. (A.k.a. in-process)- Zero dependencies on third party libraries- Mult
