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Co-authored-by: April M <april.murphy@datastax.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Hare <ericrhare@gmail.com>
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@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ This vector data can then be retrieved for workloads like Retrieval Augmented Ge
![Embedding data into a vector store](/img/vector-store-document-ingestion.png)
The user's chat input is embedded and compared to the vectors embedded during document ingestion for a similarity search.
The results are output from the vector database component as a [Data](/concepts-objects) object and parsed into text.
The results are output from the vector database component as a [Data](/data-types#data) object and parsed into text.
This text fills the `{context}` variable in the **Prompt** component, which informs the **Open AI model** component's responses.
![Retrieval from a vector store](/img/vector-store-retrieval.png)
@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ For more information, see the [DataStax documentation](https://docs.datastax.com
| Name | Display Name | Info |
|------|--------------|------|
| vector_store | Vector Store | The Astra DB vector store instance configured with the specified parameters. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Avoid common keywords associated with the user's subject matter.
1. Keywords: features, data, attributes, characteristics
2. Question: What characteristics can be identified in my data?
```
8. To view the [DataFrame](/concepts-objects#dataframe-object) generated from the **OpenAI** component's response, in the **Structured Output** component, click <Icon name="TextSearch" aria-hidden="true"/> **Inspect output**.
8. To view the [DataFrame](/data-types#dataframe) generated from the **OpenAI** component's response, in the **Structured Output** component, click <Icon name="TextSearch" aria-hidden="true"/> **Inspect output**.
The DataFrame is passed to a **Parser** component, which parses the contents of the **Keywords** column into a string.
This string of comma-separated words is passed to the **Lexical Terms** port of the **Astra DB** component.
@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ For more information, see the [Astra DB Serverless documentation](https://docs.d
| Name | Display Name | Info |
|------|--------------|------|
| vector_store | Vector Store | The Graph RAG vector store instance configured with the specified parameters. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ This component implements a Cassandra Graph Vector Store with search capabilitie
| Name | Display Name | Info |
|------|--------------|------|
| vector_store | Vector Store | The Cassandra Graph vector store instance configured with the specified parameters. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ For more information, see the [Chroma documentation](https://docs.trychroma.com/
| Name | Type | Description |
|----------------|---------------|--------------------------------|
| vector_store | Chroma | The Chroma vector store instance. |
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ For more information, see the [Chroma documentation](https://docs.trychroma.com/
| Name | Type | Description |
|------|------|-------------|
| vector_store | Chroma | A local Chroma vector store instance configured with the specified parameters. |
| search_results | List[Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | List[Data](/data-types#data) | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ For more information, see the [Elasticsearch documentation](https://www.elastic.
| Name | Type | Description |
|------|------|-------------|
| vector_store | ElasticsearchStore | The Elasticsearch vector store instance. |
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ For more information, see the [FAISS documentation](https://faiss.ai/index.html)
| Name | Display Name | Info |
|------|--------------|------|
| vector_store | Vector Store | The FAISS vector store instance configured with the specified parameters. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ For an example flow, see the **Graph RAG** template.
| Name | Type | Description |
|------|------|-------------|
| search_results | List[Data] | Results of the graph-based document retrieval as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | List[Data] | Results of the graph-based document retrieval as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ To use the HCD vector store for embeddings ingestion, connect it to an embedding
| Name | Type | Description |
|---------------|--------------|-------------------------------------------|
| vector_store | HyperConvergedDatabaseVectorStore | The HCD vector store instance. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ For more information, see the [MongoDB Atlas documentation](https://www.mongodb.
| Name | Type | Description |
| ------------- | ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| vector_store | MongoDBAtlasVectorSearch| The MongoDB Atlas vector store instance. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ For more information, see [Opensearch documentation](https://opensearch.org/plat
| Name | Type | Description |
| ------------- |------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| vector_store | OpenSearchVectorSearch | OpenSearch vector store instance |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ For more information, see the [PGVector documentation](https://github.com/pgvect
| Name | Display Name | Info |
|------|--------------|------|
| vector_store | Vector Store | The PGVector vector store instance configured with the specified parameters. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ For more information, see the [Pinecone documentation](https://docs.pinecone.io/
| Name | Display Name | Info |
|------|--------------|------|
| vector_store | Vector Store | The Pinecone vector store instance configured with the specified parameters. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | Search Results | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ For more information, see the [Qdrant documentation](https://qdrant.tech/documen
| Name | Type | Description |
| ------------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| vector_store | Qdrant | A Qdrant vector store instance. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ For more information, see the [Redis documentation](https://redis.io/docs/latest
| Name | Type | Description |
| ------------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| vector_store | Redis | Redis vector store instance |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ For more information, see the [Supabase documentation](https://supabase.com/docs
| Name | Type | Description |
| ------------- | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| vector_store | SupabaseVectorStore | A Supabase vector store instance. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ For more information, see the [Upstash documentation](https://upstash.com/docs/i
| Name | Type | Description |
| ------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| vector_store | UpstashVectorStore| An Upstash vector store instance. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ For more information, see the [Vectara documentation](https://docs.vectara.com/d
| Name | Type | Description |
| ------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| vector_store | VectaraVectorStore | Vectara vector store instance. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results| List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ For more information, see the [Vectara documentation](https://docs.vectara.com/d
| Name | Type | Description |
|----------------|------------|----------------------------|
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>
@ -964,6 +964,6 @@ For more information, see the [Weaviate Documentation](https://weaviate.io/devel
| Name | Type | Description |
|----------------|------------|----------------------------|
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/concepts-objects#data-object) objects. |
| search_results | List[Data] | The results of the similarity search as a list of [Data](/data-types#data) objects. |
</details>