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# Vectara Integration This PR provides integration with Vectara. Implemented here are: * langchain/vectorstore/vectara.py * tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_vectara.py * langchain/retrievers/vectara_retriever.py And two IPYNB notebooks to do more testing: * docs/modules/chains/index_examples/vectara_text_generation.ipynb * docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/vectara.ipynb --------- Co-authored-by: Dev 2049 <dev.dev2049@gmail.com>
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# Vectara
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What is Vectara?
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**Vectara Overview:**
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- Vectara is developer-first API platform for building conversational search applications
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- To use Vectara - first [sign up](https://console.vectara.com/signup) and create an account. Then create a corpus and an API key for indexing and searching.
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- You can use Vectara's [indexing API](https://docs.vectara.com/docs/indexing-apis/indexing) to add documents into Vectara's index
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- You can use Vectara's [Search API](https://docs.vectara.com/docs/search-apis/search) to query Vectara's index (which also supports Hybrid search implicitly).
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- You can use Vectara's integration with LangChain as a Vector store or using the Retriever abstraction.
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## Installation and Setup
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To use Vectara with LangChain no special installation steps are required. You just have to provide your customer_id, corpus ID, and an API key created within the Vectara console to enable indexing and searching.
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### VectorStore
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There exists a wrapper around the Vectara platform, allowing you to use it as a vectorstore, whether for semantic search or example selection.
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To import this vectorstore:
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```python
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from langchain.vectorstores import Vectara
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```
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To create an instance of the Vectara vectorstore:
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```python
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vectara = Vectara(
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vectara_customer_id=customer_id,
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vectara_corpus_id=corpus_id,
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vectara_api_key=api_key
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)
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```
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The customer_id, corpus_id and api_key are optional, and if they are not supplied will be read from the environment variables `VECTARA_CUSTOMER_ID`, `VECTARA_CORPUS_ID` and `VECTARA_API_KEY`, respectively.
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For a more detailed walkthrough of the Vectara wrapper, see one of the two example notebooks:
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* [Chat Over Documents with Vectara](./vectara/vectara_chat.html)
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* [Vectara Text Generation](./vectara/vectara_text_generation.html)
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