# Astra DB Vector store integration
- **Description:** This PR adds a `VectorStore` implementation for
DataStax Astra DB using its HTTP API
- **Issue:** (no related issue)
- **Dependencies:** A new required dependency is `astrapy` (`>=0.5.3`)
which was added to pyptoject.toml, optional, as per guidelines
- **Tag maintainer:** I recently mentioned to @baskaryan this
integration was coming
- **Twitter handle:** `@rsprrs` if you want to mention me
This PR introduces the `AstraDB` vector store class, extensive
integration test coverage, a reworking of the documentation which
conflates Cassandra and Astra DB on a single "provider" page and a new,
completely reworked vector-store example notebook (common to the
Cassandra store, since parts of the flow is shared by the two APIs). I
also took care in ensuring docs (and redirects therein) are behaving
correctly.
All style, linting, typechecks and tests pass as far as the `AstraDB`
integration is concerned.
I could build the documentation and check it all right (but ran into
trouble with the `api_docs_build` makefile target which I could not
verify: `Error: Unable to import module
'plan_and_execute.agent_executor' with error: No module named
'langchain_experimental'` was the first of many similar errors)
Thank you for a review!
Stefano
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Co-authored-by: Erick Friis <erick@langchain.dev>
This PR addresses what seems like a unnecessary Python version
restriction in the pyroject.toml specs within both Cassandra (/Astra DB)
templates. With "^3.11" I got some version incompatibilities with the
latest "langchain add [...]" commands, so these are now relaxed in line
with the other templates I could inspect.
Incidentally, in the "entomology" template, the need for an explicit
"setup" step for the user to carry on has been removed, replaced by a
check-and-execute-if-necessary instruction on app startup.
Thank you for your attention!
Ran the following bash script for all templates
```bash
#!/bin/bash
set -e
current_dir="$(pwd)"
for directory in */; do
if [ -d "$directory" ]; then
(cd "$directory" && poetry lock --no-update)
fi
done
cd "$current_dir"
```
Co-authored-by: Bagatur <baskaryan@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Lance Martin <lance@langchain.dev>
Co-authored-by: Jacob Lee <jacoblee93@gmail.com>
