Epsilla#

class langchain_community.vectorstores.epsilla.Epsilla(client: Any, embeddings: Embeddings, db_path: str | None = '/tmp/langchain-epsilla', db_name: str | None = 'langchain_store')[source]#

Wrapper around Epsilla vector database.

As a prerequisite, you need to install pyepsilla package and have a running Epsilla vector database (for example, through our docker image) See the following documentation for how to run an Epsilla vector database: https://epsilla-inc.gitbook.io/epsilladb/quick-start

Parameters:

  • client (Any) – Epsilla client to connect to.

  • embeddings (Embeddings) – Function used to embed the texts.

  • db_path (Optional[str]) – The path where the database will be persisted. Defaults to “/tmp/langchain-epsilla”.

  • db_name (Optional[str]) – Give a name to the loaded database. Defaults to “langchain_store”.

Example

from langchain_community.vectorstores import Epsilla
from pyepsilla import vectordb

client = vectordb.Client()
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
db_path = "/tmp/vectorstore"
db_name = "langchain_store"
epsilla = Epsilla(client, embeddings, db_path, db_name)

Initialize with necessary components.

Attributes

embeddings

Access the query embedding object if available.

Methods

__init__(client, embeddings[, db_path, db_name])

Initialize with necessary components.

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, ...])

Embed texts and add them to the database.

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.

clear_data([collection_name])

Clear data in a collection.

delete([ids])

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

from_documents(documents, embedding[, ...])

Create an Epsilla vectorstore from a list of documents.

from_texts(texts, embedding[, metadatas, ...])

Create an Epsilla vectorstore from raw documents.

get([collection_name, response_fields])

Get the collection.

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, collection_name])

Return the documents that are semantically most relevant to the query.

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.

use_collection(collection_name)

Set default collection to use.
__init__(client: Any, embeddings: Embeddings, db_path: str | None = '/tmp/langchain-epsilla', db_name: str | None = 'langchain_store')[source]#

Initialize with necessary components.

Parameters:

  • client (Any)

  • embeddings (Embeddings)

  • db_path (str | None)

  • db_name (str | None)

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, collection_name: str | None = '', drop_old: bool | None = False, **kwargs: Any) → List[str][source]#

Embed texts and add them to the database.

Parameters:

  • texts (Iterable[str]) – The texts to embed.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Metadata dicts attached to each of the texts. Defaults to None.

  • collection_name (Optional[str]) – Which collection to use. Defaults to “langchain_collection”. If provided, default collection name will be set as well.

  • drop_old (Optional[bool]) – Whether to drop the previous collection and create a new one. Defaults to False.

  • kwargs (Any)

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 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 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]]

clear_data(collection_name: str = '') → None[source]#

Clear data in a collection.

Parameters:

collection_name (Optional[str]) – The name of the collection. If not provided, the default collection will be used.

Return type:

None

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, client: Any = None, db_path: str | None = '/tmp/langchain-epsilla', db_name: str | None = 'langchain_store', collection_name: str | None = 'langchain_collection', drop_old: bool | None = False, **kwargs: Any) → Epsilla[source]#

Create an Epsilla vectorstore from a list of documents.

Parameters:

  • texts (List[str]) – List of text data to be inserted.

  • embeddings (Embeddings) – Embedding function.

  • client (pyepsilla.vectordb.Client) – Epsilla client to connect to.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Metadata for each text. Defaults to None.

  • db_path (Optional[str]) – The path where the database will be persisted. Defaults to “/tmp/langchain-epsilla”.

  • db_name (Optional[str]) – Give a name to the loaded database. Defaults to “langchain_store”.

  • collection_name (Optional[str]) – Which collection to use. Defaults to “langchain_collection”. If provided, default collection name will be set as well.

  • drop_old (Optional[bool]) – Whether to drop the previous collection and create a new one. Defaults to False.

  • documents (List[Document])

  • embedding (Embeddings)

  • kwargs (Any)

Returns:

Epsilla vector store.

Return type:

Epsilla

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: List[dict] | None = None, client: Any = None, db_path: str | None = '/tmp/langchain-epsilla', db_name: str | None = 'langchain_store', collection_name: str | None = 'langchain_collection', drop_old: bool | None = False, **kwargs: Any) → Epsilla[source]#

Create an Epsilla vectorstore from raw documents.

Parameters:

  • texts (List[str]) – List of text data to be inserted.

  • embeddings (Embeddings) – Embedding function.

  • client (pyepsilla.vectordb.Client) – Epsilla client to connect to.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Metadata for each text. Defaults to None.

  • db_path (Optional[str]) – The path where the database will be persisted. Defaults to “/tmp/langchain-epsilla”.

  • db_name (Optional[str]) – Give a name to the loaded database. Defaults to “langchain_store”.

  • collection_name (Optional[str]) – Which collection to use. Defaults to “langchain_collection”. If provided, default collection name will be set as well.

  • drop_old (Optional[bool]) – Whether to drop the previous collection and create a new one. Defaults to False.

  • embedding (Embeddings)

  • kwargs (Any)

Returns:

Epsilla vector store.

Return type:

Epsilla

get(collection_name: str = '', response_fields: List[str] | None = None) → List[dict][source]#

Get the collection.

Parameters:

  • collection_name (Optional[str]) – The name of the collection to retrieve data from. If not provided, the default collection will be used.

  • response_fields (Optional[List[str]]) – List of field names in the result. If not specified, all available fields will be responded.

Returns:

A list of the retrieved data.

Return type:

List[dict]

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.

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]

Return the documents that are semantically most relevant to the query.

Parameters:

  • query (str) – String to query the vectorstore with.

  • k (Optional[int]) – Number of documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • collection_name (Optional[str]) – Collection to use. Defaults to “langchain_store” or the one provided before.

  • kwargs (Any)

Returns:

List of documents that are semantically most relevant 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]]

use_collection(collection_name: str) → None[source]#

Set default collection to use.

Parameters:

collection_name (str) – The name of the collection.

Return type:

None

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