chroma-core/chroma
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Search infrastructure for AI
19 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 16 comments · first 2023-04-03 · latest 2026-03-26
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ChromaDB is open source with Apache-2.0 license. https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by nalinidash · 2026-03-26 · in From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures -
Distributed Chroma, the open-source project backing Chroma Cloud, uses Foyer extensively: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/blob/2cb5c00d2e97ef449...
comment by philip1209 · 2025-09-27 · in I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency -
Chroma's open-source under an Apache 2.0 License: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma Single-node Chroma is very easy to self-host for free: https://docs.trychroma.com/guides/deploy/docker
comment by philip1209 · 2025-08-20 · in Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI -
…dataset until it passes evals, and then push it up to the cloud. Chroma is Apache 2.0 open source - https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma and has a massive developer community behind it. Customers can run embedded, single-node and…
comment by HammadB · 2025-08-19 · in Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI -
…database for development and ci. It's pretty cool - just clone then run `tilt up` and it's working: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by philip1209 · 2025-04-26 · in Tilt: dev environment as code -
…): SQL stream processing, analytics, and management. * Chroma ( https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma ): Embedding database for LLM apps. * SlateDB ( https://github.com/slatedb/slatedb ): A cloud native embedded storage en
comment by yingjunwu · 2025-03-05 · in Hybrid in-memory and disk cache in Rust -
Great. Rust has good bm25 crates, perhaps it will be easier to folow up in this now: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/issues/1686
comment by antman · 2025-03-01 · in Chroma is now 4x faster, powered by Rust -
…Database, Warehouse What can ChromaDB do that lancedb can't, and will either work in WASM? From https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma : > By default, Chroma uses Sentence Transformers to embed for you but you can also use OpenAI…
comment by westurner · 2024-07-06 · in Txtai – A Strong Alternative to ChromaDB and LangChain for Vector Search and RAG -
Chroma looks good. https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma 10k+ stars, very easy to use, and can be used as an embedding database
comment by shenli3514 · 2024-01-23 · in Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round -
…It's neither advanced nor for scale yet, but the RAG demo works. [1] https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by PhilippGille · 2024-01-12 · in Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf] -
…building locally and dont want to send your data anywhere - try the open-source alternative Chroma https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by jeffchuber · 2023-08-03 · in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Reducing Hallucinations in GenAI Apps -
chroma can help here https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by jeffchuber · 2023-08-01 · in Which vector database should I use? A comparison cheatsheet -
…- chroma's default embedding model is sentence transformers - and we have many other integrated - https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/blob/main/chromadb/uti... > It would be wonderful if there were a simpler (single file, SQLite or…
comment by jeffchuber · 2023-07-12 · in Introduction to vector similarity search (2022) -
…which is not particularly compute expensive. You can read about one such implementation here: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by brucethemoose2 · 2023-06-01 · in OpenAI's plans according to sama -
https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by beachandbyte · 2023-05-27 · in Ask HN: Self hosted open source solutions for creating text embeddings? -
Chroma runs on Windows since I believe it's just a python package: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
comment by dtrailin · 2023-05-05 · in What is a Vector Database? (2021)