turbopuffer
Paid
A serverless vector and full-text search engine built on object storage for low cost at scale.
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Chroma
Vector Databases
Freemium
A simple open-source vector database that is popular for prototypes and local AI apps.
About Chroma
Chroma is an open-source embedding database aimed at making AI app development easy. You can install it with one command, run it in memory or locally, and store documents with their embeddings in a few lines of Python.
It is a common choice in tutorials and early prototypes for retrieval augmented generation, since it needs almost no setup. Chroma Cloud offers a managed, serverless version when you want to go to production.
The open-source project is free, and the cloud product is usage based. It suits developers who value simplicity and a quick start.
Standout features
- Simple Python and JS API
- Runs locally or in memory
- Metadata filtering
- Managed Chroma Cloud
- Works with major frameworks
- Open source
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