`langchain_community.vectorstores.duckdb`.DuckDB¶

class langchain_community.vectorstores.duckdb.DuckDB(*, connection: Optional[Any] = None, embedding: Embeddings, vector_key: str = 'embedding', id_key: str = 'id', text_key: str = 'text', table_name: str = 'vectorstore')[source]¶

DuckDB vector store.

This class provides a vector store interface for adding texts and performing similarity searches using DuckDB.

For more information about DuckDB, see: https://duckdb.org/

This integration requires the duckdb Python package. You can install it with pip install duckdb.

Security Notice: The default DuckDB configuration is not secure.

By default, DuckDB can interact with files across the entire file system, which includes abilities to read, write, and list files and directories. It can also access some python variables present in the global namespace.

When using this DuckDB vectorstore, we suggest that you initialize the DuckDB connection with a secure configuration.

For example, you can set enable_external_access to false in the connection configuration to disable external access to the DuckDB connection.

You can view the DuckDB configuration options here:

https://duckdb.org/docs/configuration/overview.html

Please review other relevant security considerations in the DuckDB documentation. (e.g., “autoinstall_known_extensions”: “false”, “autoload_known_extensions”: “false”)

See https://python.langchain.com/docs/security for more information.

Parameters

connection (Optional[Any]) – Optional DuckDB connection
embedding (Embeddings) – The embedding function or model to use for generating embeddings.
vector_key (str) – The column name for storing vectors. Defaults to embedding.
id_key (str) – The column name for storing unique identifiers. Defaults to id.
text_key (str) – The column name for storing text. Defaults to text.
table_name (str) – The name of the table to use for storing embeddings. Defaults to embeddings.

Example

import duckdb
conn = duckdb.connect(database=':memory:',
    config={
        # Sample configuration to restrict some DuckDB capabilities
        # List is not exhaustive. Please review DuckDB documentation.
            "enable_external_access": "false",
            "autoinstall_known_extensions": "false",
            "autoload_known_extensions": "false"
        }
)
embedding_function = ... # Define or import your embedding function here
vector_store = DuckDB(conn, embedding_function)
vector_store.add_texts(['text1', 'text2'])
result = vector_store.similarity_search('text1')

Initialize with DuckDB connection and setup for vector storage.

Attributes

embeddings

Returns the embedding object used by the vector store.

Methods

`__init__`(*[, connection, vector_key, ...])	Initialize with DuckDB connection and setup for vector storage.
`aadd_documents`(documents, **kwargs)	Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`aadd_texts`(texts[, metadatas])	Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`add_documents`(documents, **kwargs)	Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
`add_texts`(texts[, metadatas])	Turn texts into embedding and add it to the database using Pandas DataFrame
`adelete`([ids])	Delete by vector ID or other criteria.
`afrom_documents`(documents, embedding, **kwargs)	Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.
`afrom_texts`(texts, embedding[, metadatas])	Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.
`amax_marginal_relevance_search`(query[, k, ...])	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector`(...)	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`as_retriever`(**kwargs)	Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.
`asearch`(query, search_type, **kwargs)	Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.
`asimilarity_search`(query[, k])	Return docs most similar to query.
`asimilarity_search_by_vector`(embedding[, k])	Return docs most similar to embedding vector.
`asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores`(query)	Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1], asynchronously.
`asimilarity_search_with_score`(args, *kwargs)	Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.
`delete`([ids])	Delete by vector ID or other criteria.
`from_documents`(documents, embedding, **kwargs)	Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.
`from_texts`(texts, embedding[, metadatas])	Creates an instance of DuckDB and populates it with texts and
`max_marginal_relevance_search`(query[, k, ...])	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector`(...)	Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
`search`(query, search_type, **kwargs)	Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.
`similarity_search`(query[, k])	Performs a similarity search for a given query string.
`similarity_search_by_vector`(embedding[, k])	Return docs most similar to embedding vector.
`similarity_search_with_relevance_scores`(query)	Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].
`similarity_search_with_score`(args, *kwargs)	Run similarity search with distance.

__init__(*, connection: Optional[Any] = None, embedding: Embeddings, vector_key: str = 'embedding', id_key: str = 'id', text_key: str = 'text', table_name: str = 'vectorstore')[source]¶

Initialize with DuckDB connection and setup for vector storage.

Parameters

connection (Optional[Any]) –
embedding (Embeddings) –
vector_key (str) –
id_key (str) –
text_key (str) –
table_name (str) –

async aadd_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) → List[str]¶

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

(List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.
documents (List[Document]) –
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

async aadd_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[str]¶

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

texts (Iterable[str]) –
metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[str]

add_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) → List[str]¶

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

(List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.
documents (List[Document]) –
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

add_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[str][source]¶

Turn texts into embedding and add it to the database using Pandas DataFrame

Parameters

texts (Iterable[str]) – Iterable of strings to add to the vectorstore.
metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts.
kwargs (Any) – Additional parameters including optional ‘ids’ to associate with the texts.

Returns

List of ids of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

async adelete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → Optional[bool]¶

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters

ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of ids to delete.
**kwargs (Any) – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type

Optional[bool]

async classmethod afrom_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) → VST¶

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters

documents (List[Document]) –
embedding (Embeddings) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

VST

async classmethod afrom_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → VST¶

Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Parameters

texts (List[str]) –
embedding (Embeddings) –
metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

VST

async amax_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.
lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

async amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Parameters

embedding (List[float]) –
k (int) –
fetch_k (int) –
lambda_mult (float) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

as_retriever(**kwargs: Any) → VectorStoreRetriever¶

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

Parameters

search_type (Optional[str]) – Defines the type of search that the Retriever should perform. Can be “similarity” (default), “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.
search_kwargs (Optional[Dict]) –
Keyword arguments to pass to the search function. Can include things like:

k: Amount of documents to return (Default: 4) score_threshold: Minimum relevance threshold

for similarity_score_threshold

fetch_k: Amount of documents to pass to MMR algorithm (Default: 20) lambda_mult: Diversity of results returned by MMR;

1 for minimum diversity and 0 for maximum. (Default: 0.5)

filter: Filter by document metadata
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

Retriever class for VectorStore.

Return type

VectorStoreRetriever

Examples:

# Retrieve more documents with higher diversity
# Useful if your dataset has many similar documents
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 6, 'lambda_mult': 0.25}
)

# Fetch more documents for the MMR algorithm to consider
# But only return the top 5
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 5, 'fetch_k': 50}
)

# Only retrieve documents that have a relevance score
# Above a certain threshold
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="similarity_score_threshold",
    search_kwargs={'score_threshold': 0.8}
)

# Only get the single most similar document from the dataset
docsearch.as_retriever(search_kwargs={'k': 1})

# Use a filter to only retrieve documents from a specific paper
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_kwargs={'filter': {'paper_title':'GPT-4 Technical Report'}}
)

async asearch(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

Parameters

query (str) –
search_type (str) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

async asimilarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to query.

Parameters

query (str) –
k (int) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

async asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters

embedding (List[float]) –
k (int) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

async asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1], asynchronously.

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters

query (str) – input text
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs (Any) –
kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

async asimilarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.

Parameters

args (Any) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

delete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → Optional[bool]¶

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters

ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of ids to delete.
**kwargs (Any) – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type

Optional[bool]

classmethod from_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) → VST¶

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters

documents (List[Document]) –
embedding (Embeddings) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

VST

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → DuckDB[source]¶

Creates an instance of DuckDB and populates it with texts and: their embeddings.

Parameters

texts (List[str]) – List of strings to add to the vector store.
embedding (Embeddings) – The embedding function or model to use for generating embeddings.
metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Optional list of metadata dictionaries associated with the texts.
**kwargs (Any) –
Additional keyword arguments including: - connection: DuckDB connection. If not provided, a new connection will

be created.
- vector_key: The column name for storing vectors. Default “vector”.
- id_key: The column name for storing unique identifiers. Default “id”.
- text_key: The column name for storing text. Defaults to “text”.
- table_name: The name of the table to use for storing embeddings.
  Defaults to “embeddings”.

Returns

An instance of DuckDB with the provided texts and their embeddings added.

Return type

DuckDB

max_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.
lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.
lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

search(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

Parameters

query (str) –
search_type (str) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]¶

Performs a similarity search for a given query string.

Parameters

query (str) – The query string to search for.
k (int) – The number of similar texts to return.
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

A list of Documents most similar to the query.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters

embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters

query (str) – input text
k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
**kwargs (Any) –
kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

similarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Run similarity search with distance.

Parameters

args (Any) –
kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

Examples using DuckDB¶

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langchain_community.vectorstores.duckdb.DuckDB¶

Examples using DuckDB¶

`langchain_community.vectorstores.duckdb`.DuckDB¶