* Adds `AstraDBEnvironment` class and use it in `AstraDBLoader`,
`AstraDBCache`, `AstraDBSemanticCache`, `AstraDBBaseStore` and
`AstraDBChatMessageHistory`
* Create an `AsyncAstraDB` if we only have an `AstraDB` and vice-versa
so:
* we always have an instance of `AstraDB`
* we always have an instance of `AsyncAstraDB` for recent versions of
astrapy
* Create collection if not exists in `AstraDBBaseStore`
* Some typing improvements
Note: `AstraDB` `VectorStore` not using `AstraDBEnvironment` at the
moment. This will be done after the `langchain-astradb` package is out.
**Description:**
- Implement `SQLStrStore` and `SQLDocStore` classes that inherits from
`BaseStore` to allow to persist data remotely on a SQL server.
- SQL is widely used and sometimes we do not want to install a caching
solution like Redis.
- Multiple issues/comments complain that there is no easy remote and
persistent solution that are not in memory (users want to replace
InMemoryStore), e.g.,
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/14267,
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/15633,
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/14643,
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77385587/persist-parentdocumentretriever-of-langchain
- This is particularly painful when wanting to use
`ParentDocumentRetriever `
- This implementation is particularly useful when:
* it's expensive to construct an InMemoryDocstore/dict
* you want to retrieve documents from remote sources
* you just want to reuse existing objects
- This implementation integrates well with PGVector, indeed, when using
PGVector, you already have a SQL instance running. `SQLDocStore` is a
convenient way of using this instance to store documents associated to
vectors. An integration example with ParentDocumentRetriever and
PGVector is provided in docs/docs/integrations/stores/sql.ipynb or
[here](https://github.com/gcheron/langchain/blob/sql-store/docs/docs/integrations/stores/sql.ipynb).
- It persists `str` and `Document` objects but can be easily extended.
**Issue:**
Provide an easy SQL alternative to `InMemoryStore`.
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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
