[Supabase](https://supabase.com/docs) is an open-source Firebase alternative. It is built on top of [PostgreSQL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL), a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) and uses [pgvector](https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector) to store embeddings within your tables.
## Environment Setup
Set the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable to access the OpenAI models.
To get your `OPENAI_API_KEY`, navigate to [API keys](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys) on your OpenAI account and create a new secret key.
To find your `SUPABASE_URL` and `SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY`, head to your Supabase project's [API settings](https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/settings/api).
-`SUPABASE_URL` corresponds to the Project URL
-`SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY` corresponds to the `service_role` API key
Use these steps to setup your Supabase database if you haven't already.
1. Head over to https://database.new to provision your Supabase database.
2. In the studio, jump to the [SQL editor](https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/sql/new) and run the following script to enable `pgvector` and setup your database as a vector store:
```sql
-- Enable the pgvector extension to work with embedding vectors
create extension if not exists vector;
-- Create a table to store your documents
create table
documents (
id uuid primary key,
content text, -- corresponds to Document.pageContent
metadata jsonb, -- corresponds to Document.metadata
embedding vector (1536) -- 1536 works for OpenAI embeddings, change as needed
);
-- Create a function to search for documents
create function match_documents (
query_embedding vector (1536),
filter jsonb default '{}'
) returns table (
id uuid,
content text,
metadata jsonb,
similarity float
) language plpgsql as $$
#variable_conflict use_column
begin
return query
select
id,
content,
metadata,
1 - (documents.embedding <=> query_embedding) as similarity
from documents
where metadata @> filter
order by documents.embedding <=> query_embedding;
end;
$$;
```
## Setup Environment Variables
Since we are using [`SupabaseVectorStore`](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/vectorstores/supabase) and [`OpenAIEmbeddings`](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/text_embedding/openai), we need to load their API keys.