DuckDB#

class langchain_community.vectorstores.duckdb.DuckDB(*, connection: Any | None = None, embedding: Embeddings, vector_key: str = 'embedding', id_key: str = 'id', text_key: str = 'text', table_name: str = 'embeddings')[source]#

DuckDB vector store.

This class provides a vector store interface for adding texts and performing similarity searches using DuckDB.

For more information about DuckDB, see: https://duckdb.org/

This integration requires the duckdb Python package. You can install it with pip install duckdb.

Security Notice: The default DuckDB configuration is not secure.

By default, DuckDB can interact with files across the entire file system, which includes abilities to read, write, and list files and directories. It can also access some python variables present in the global namespace.

When using this DuckDB vectorstore, we suggest that you initialize the DuckDB connection with a secure configuration.

For example, you can set enable_external_access to false in the connection configuration to disable external access to the DuckDB connection.

You can view the DuckDB configuration options here:

https://duckdb.org/docs/configuration/overview.html

Please review other relevant security considerations in the DuckDB documentation. (e.g., “autoinstall_known_extensions”: “false”, “autoload_known_extensions”: “false”)

See https://python.langchain.com/docs/security for more information.

Parameters:

connection (Optional[Any]) – Optional DuckDB connection
embedding (Embeddings) – The embedding function or model to use for generating embeddings.
vector_key (str) – The column name for storing vectors. Defaults to embedding.
id_key (str) – The column name for storing unique identifiers. Defaults to id.
text_key (str) – The column name for storing text. Defaults to text.
table_name (str) – The name of the table to use for storing embeddings. Defaults to embeddings.

Example

import duckdb
conn = duckdb.connect(database=':memory:',
    config={
        # Sample configuration to restrict some DuckDB capabilities
        # List is not exhaustive. Please review DuckDB documentation.
            "enable_external_access": "false",
            "autoinstall_known_extensions": "false",
            "autoload_known_extensions": "false"
        }
)
embedding_function = ... # Define or import your embedding function here
vector_store = DuckDB(conn, embedding_function)
vector_store.add_texts(['text1', 'text2'])
result = vector_store.similarity_search('text1')

Initialize with DuckDB connection and setup for vector storage.

Attributes

embeddings

Returns the embedding object used by the vector store.

Methods

`__init__`(*[, connection, vector_key, ...])	Initialize with DuckDB connection and setup for vector storage.
`aadd_documents`(documents, **kwargs)	Async run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`aadd_texts`(texts[, metadatas, ids])	Async run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`add_documents`(documents, **kwargs)	Add or update documents in the vectorstore.
`add_texts`(texts[, metadatas])	Turn texts into embedding and add it to the database using Pandas DataFrame
`adelete`([ids])	Async delete by vector ID or other criteria.
`afrom_documents`(documents, embedding, **kwargs)	Async return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.
`afrom_texts`(texts, embedding[, metadatas, ids])	Async return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.
`aget_by_ids`(ids, /)	Async get documents by their IDs.
`amax_marginal_relevance_search`(query[, k, ...])	Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector`(...)	Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`as_retriever`(**kwargs)	Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.
`asearch`(query, search_type, **kwargs)	Async return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.
`asimilarity_search`(query[, k])	Async return docs most similar to query.
`asimilarity_search_by_vector`(embedding[, k])	Async return docs most similar to embedding vector.
`asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores`(query)	Async return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].
`asimilarity_search_with_score`(args, *kwargs)	Async run similarity search with distance.
`delete`([ids])	Delete by vector ID or other criteria.
`from_documents`(documents, embedding, **kwargs)	Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.
`from_texts`(texts, embedding[, metadatas])	Creates an instance of DuckDB and populates it with texts and
`get_by_ids`(ids, /)	Get documents by their IDs.
`max_marginal_relevance_search`(query[, k, ...])	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector`(...)	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`search`(query, search_type, **kwargs)	Return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.
`similarity_search`(query[, k])	Performs a similarity search for a given query string.
`similarity_search_by_vector`(embedding[, k])	Return docs most similar to embedding vector.
`similarity_search_with_relevance_scores`(query)	Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].
`similarity_search_with_score`(args, *kwargs)	Run similarity search with distance.

__init__(*, connection: Any | None = None, embedding: Embeddings, vector_key: str = 'embedding', id_key: str = 'id', text_key: str = 'text', table_name: str = 'embeddings')[source]#

Initialize with DuckDB connection and setup for vector storage.

Parameters:

connection (Any | None)
embedding (Embeddings)
vector_key (str)
id_key (str)
text_key (str)
table_name (str)

async aadd_documents(documents: list[Document], **kwargs: Any) → list[str]#

Async run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters:

documents (list[Document]) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.
kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns:

List of IDs of the added texts.

Raises:

ValueError – If the number of IDs does not match the number of documents.

Return type:

list[str]

async aadd_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: list[dict] | None = None, *, ids: list[str] | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → list[str]#

Async run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters:

texts (Iterable[str]) – Iterable of strings to add to the vectorstore.
metadatas (list[dict] | None) – Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts. Default is None.
ids (list[str] | None) – Optional list
**kwargs (Any) – vectorstore specific parameters.

Returns:

List of ids from adding the texts into the vectorstore.

Raises:

ValueError – If the number of metadatas does not match the number of texts.
ValueError – If the number of ids does not match the number of texts.

Return type:

list[str]

add_documents(documents: list[Document], **kwargs: Any) → list[str]#

Add or update documents in the vectorstore.

Parameters:

documents (list[Document]) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.
kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments. if kwargs contains ids and documents contain ids, the ids in the kwargs will receive precedence.

Returns:

List of IDs of the added texts.

Raises:

ValueError – If the number of ids does not match the number of documents.

Return type:

list[str]

add_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: List[dict] | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[str][source]#

Turn texts into embedding and add it to the database using Pandas DataFrame

Parameters:

texts (Iterable[str]) – Iterable of strings to add to the vectorstore.
metadatas (List[dict] | None) – Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts.
kwargs (Any) – Additional parameters including optional ‘ids’ to associate with the texts.

Returns:

List of ids of the added texts.

Return type:

List[str]

async adelete(ids: list[str] | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → bool | None#

Async delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters:

ids (list[str] | None) – List of ids to delete. If None, delete all. Default is None.
**kwargs (Any) – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns:

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type:

Optional[bool]

async classmethod afrom_documents(documents: list[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) → VST#

Async return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters:

documents (list[Document]) – List of Documents to add to the vectorstore.
embedding (Embeddings) – Embedding function to use.
kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns:

VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Return type:

VectorStore

async classmethod afrom_texts(texts: list[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: list[dict] | None = None, *, ids: list[str] | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → VST#

Async return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Parameters:

texts (list[str]) – Texts to add to the vectorstore.
embedding (Embeddings) – Embedding function to use.
metadatas (list[dict] | None) – Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts. Default is None.
ids (list[str] | None) – Optional list of IDs associated with the texts.
kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns:

VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Return type:

VectorStore

async aget_by_ids(ids: Sequence[str], /) → list[Document]#

Async get documents by their IDs.

The returned documents are expected to have the ID field set to the ID of the document in the vector store.

Fewer documents may be returned than requested if some IDs are not found or if there are duplicated IDs.

Users should not assume that the order of the returned documents matches the order of the input IDs. Instead, users should rely on the ID field of the returned documents.

This method should NOT raise exceptions if no documents are found for some IDs.

Parameters:: ids (Sequence[str]) – List of ids to retrieve.
Returns:: List of Documents.
Return type:: list[Document]

Added in version 0.2.11.

async amax_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters:

query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.
lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
kwargs (Any)

Returns:

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type:

list[Document]

async amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: list[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters:

embedding (list[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.
lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type:

list[Document]

as_retriever(**kwargs: Any) → VectorStoreRetriever#

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

Parameters:

**kwargs (Any) –

Keyword arguments to pass to the search function. Can include: search_type (Optional[str]): Defines the type of search that

the Retriever should perform. Can be “similarity” (default), “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

search_kwargs (Optional[Dict]): Keyword arguments to pass to the

search function. Can include things like:

k: Amount of documents to return (Default: 4) score_threshold: Minimum relevance threshold

for similarity_score_threshold

fetch_k: Amount of documents to pass to MMR algorithm: (Default: 20)
lambda_mult: Diversity of results returned by MMR;: 1 for minimum diversity and 0 for maximum. (Default: 0.5)

filter: Filter by document metadata

Returns:

Retriever class for VectorStore.

Return type:

VectorStoreRetriever

Examples:

# Retrieve more documents with higher diversity
# Useful if your dataset has many similar documents
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 6, 'lambda_mult': 0.25}
)

# Fetch more documents for the MMR algorithm to consider
# But only return the top 5
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 5, 'fetch_k': 50}
)

# Only retrieve documents that have a relevance score
# Above a certain threshold
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="similarity_score_threshold",
    search_kwargs={'score_threshold': 0.8}
)

# Only get the single most similar document from the dataset
docsearch.as_retriever(search_kwargs={'k': 1})

# Use a filter to only retrieve documents from a specific paper
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_kwargs={'filter': {'paper_title':'GPT-4 Technical Report'}}
)

async asearch(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Async return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.

Parameters:

query (str) – Input text.
search_type (str) – Type of search to perform. Can be “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents most similar to the query.

Raises:

ValueError – If search_type is not one of “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

Return type:

list[Document]

async asimilarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Async return docs most similar to query.

Parameters:

query (str) – Input text.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents most similar to the query.

Return type:

list[Document]

async asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding: list[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Async return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters:

embedding (list[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

Return type:

list[Document]

async asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → list[tuple[Document, float]]#

Async return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters:

query (str) – Input text.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs (Any) –
kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns:

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

Return type:

list[tuple[Document, float]]

async asimilarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) → list[tuple[Document, float]]#

Async run similarity search with distance.

Parameters:

*args (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score).

Return type:

list[tuple[Document, float]]

delete(ids: list[str] | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → bool | None#

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters:

ids (list[str] | None) – List of ids to delete. If None, delete all. Default is None.
**kwargs (Any) – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns:

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type:

Optional[bool]

classmethod from_documents(documents: list[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) → VST#

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters:

documents (list[Document]) – List of Documents to add to the vectorstore.
embedding (Embeddings) – Embedding function to use.
kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns:

VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Return type:

VectorStore

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: List[dict] | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → DuckDB[source]#

Creates an instance of DuckDB and populates it with texts and: their embeddings.

Parameters:

texts (List[str]) – List of strings to add to the vector store.
embedding (Embeddings) – The embedding function or model to use for generating embeddings.
metadatas (List[dict] | None) – Optional list of metadata dictionaries associated with the texts.
kwargs (Any) –
Additional keyword arguments including: - connection: DuckDB connection. If not provided, a new connection will

be created.
- vector_key: The column name for storing vectors. Default “vector”.
- id_key: The column name for storing unique identifiers. Default “id”.
- text_key: The column name for storing text. Defaults to “text”.
- table_name: The name of the table to use for storing embeddings.
  Defaults to “embeddings”.

Returns:

An instance of DuckDB with the provided texts and their embeddings added.

Return type:

DuckDB

get_by_ids(ids: Sequence[str], /) → list[Document]#

Get documents by their IDs.

The returned documents are expected to have the ID field set to the ID of the document in the vector store.

Fewer documents may be returned than requested if some IDs are not found or if there are duplicated IDs.

Users should not assume that the order of the returned documents matches the order of the input IDs. Instead, users should rely on the ID field of the returned documents.

This method should NOT raise exceptions if no documents are found for some IDs.

Parameters:: ids (Sequence[str]) – List of ids to retrieve.
Returns:: List of Documents.
Return type:: list[Document]

Added in version 0.2.11.

max_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters:

query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.
lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type:

list[Document]

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: list[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters:

embedding (list[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.
lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type:

list[Document]

search(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.

Parameters:

query (str) – Input text
search_type (str) – Type of search to perform. Can be “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents most similar to the query.

Raises:

ValueError – If search_type is not one of “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

Return type:

list[Document]

similarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]#

Performs a similarity search for a given query string.

Parameters:

query (str) – The query string to search for.
k (int) – The number of similar texts to return.
kwargs (Any)

Returns:

A list of Documents most similar to the query.

Return type:

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding: list[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → list[Document]#

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters:

embedding (list[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

Return type:

list[Document]

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → list[tuple[Document, float]]#

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters:

query (str) – Input text.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs (Any) –
kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

filter the resulting set of retrieved docs.

Returns:

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score).

Return type:

list[tuple[Document, float]]

similarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) → list[tuple[Document, float]]#

Run similarity search with distance.

Parameters:

*args (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.
**kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns:

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score).

Return type:

list[tuple[Document, float]]

Examples using DuckDB

DuckDB