chroma

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Chroma is a database. A Chroma database contains collections. A collection contains documents.

Unlike tables in a relational database, collections are created and destroyed at the application level. Each Chroma database can have millions of collections. There may be a collection for each user, or team or organization. Rather than tables be partitioned by some key, the partition in Chroma is the collection.

Collections don't have rows, they have documents, the document is the text data that is to be searched. When data is created or updated, the client will create an embedding of the data. This is done on the client side based on the embedding function(s) provided to the client. To create the embedding the client will use its configuration to call out to the defined embedding model provider via the embedding function...

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