langchain/templates/rag-astradb/README.md
Stefano Lottini 4f4b020582
Add "Astra DB" vector store integration (#12966)
# 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>
2023-11-07 14:45:33 -08:00

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rag-astradb

This template will perform RAG using Astra DB (AstraDB vector store class)

Environment Setup

An Astra DB database is required; free tier is fine.

  • You need the database API endpoint (such as https://0123...-us-east1.apps.astra.datastax.com) ...
  • ... and a token (AstraCS:...).

Also, an OpenAI API Key is required. Note that out-of-the-box this demo supports OpenAI only, unless you tinker with the code.

Provide the connection parameters and secrets through environment variables. Please refer to .env.template for the variable names.

Usage

To use this package, you should first have the LangChain CLI installed:

pip install -U "langchain-cli[serve]"

To create a new LangChain project and install this as the only package, you can do:

langchain app new my-app --package rag-astradb

If you want to add this to an existing project, you can just run:

langchain app add rag-astradb

And add the following code to your server.py file:

from astradb_entomology_rag import chain as astradb_entomology_rag_chain

add_routes(app, astradb_entomology_rag_chain, path="/rag-astradb")

(Optional) Let's now configure LangSmith. LangSmith will help us trace, monitor and debug LangChain applications. LangSmith is currently in private beta, you can sign up here. If you don't have access, you can skip this section

export LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2=true
export LANGCHAIN_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
export LANGCHAIN_PROJECT=<your-project>  # if not specified, defaults to "default"

If you are inside this directory, then you can spin up a LangServe instance directly by:

langchain serve

This will start the FastAPI app with a server is running locally at http://localhost:8000

We can see all templates at http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs We can access the playground at http://127.0.0.1:8000/rag-astradb/playground

We can access the template from code with:

from langserve.client import RemoteRunnable

runnable = RemoteRunnable("http://localhost:8000/rag-astradb")

Reference

Stand-alone repo with LangServe chain: here.