tinyvector
App Listed Dormant
A tiny embedding database in pure Rust.
- Downloads
- Not measured
- Dependents
- Not applicable
- Stars
- 440
- Forks
- 26
- Contributors
- 2
- Commits
- 21
About
tinyvector - a tiny embedding database in pure Rust
✨ Features
- Tiny: It's in the name. It's literally just an axum server. Extremely easy to customize, around 600 lines of code.
- Fast: Tinyvector should have comparable speed to advanced vector databases when it comes on small to medium datasets, and slightly better accuracy.
- Vertically Scales: Tinyvector stores all indexes in memory for fast querying. Very easy to scale up to 100 million+ vector dimensions without issue.
- Open Source: MIT Licensed, free forever.
Soon
- Powerful Queries: Allow filtering by the provided vector metadata without slowing the search down.
- Integrated Models: Soon you won't have to bring your own vectors, just generate them on the server automaticaly. Aiming to support support SBert, Hugging Face models, OpenAI, Cohere, etc.
- Typescript/Python Libraries: Should be able to auto-generate pretty good clients using the included OpenAPI schema.
🚀 Getting Started
🐳 Docker
We provide a lightweight Docker container that you can run anywhere. It only takes one command to get up and running with the latest changes:
docker run \
-p 8000:8000 \
ghcr.io/m1guelpf/tinyvector:edge
Read the full README
Note When running via Docker Compose or Kubernetes, make sure to bind a volume to
/tinyvector/storagefor persistence. This is handled automatically in the command above.
🛠️ Building from scratch
You can build tinyvector from the latest tagged release by running cargo install tinyvector (you might need to install Rust first). Then, run tinyvector to start up the server.
You can also build it from the latest commit by cloning the repo and running cargo build --release, and run it with ./target/release/tinyvector.
💡 Why use tinyvector?
Most vector databases are overkill for simple setups. For example:
- Using embeddings to chat with your documents. Most document search is nowhere close to what you'd need to justify accelerating search speed with HNSW or FAISS.
- Doing search for your website or store. Unless you're selling 1,000,000 items, you don't need Pinecone.
🧩 Embeddings?
Embeddings are a way to compare similar things, in the same way humans compare similar things, by converting text into a small list of numbers. Similar pieces of text will have similar numbers, different ones have very different numbers.
Read OpenAI's explanation.
🙏 Acknowledgements
- Will Depue's tinyvector (python+sqlite+numpy) inspired me to build a vector database from scratch (and borrow the name). Will also contributed plenty of ideas to optimize performance.
📄 License
This project is open-sourced under the MIT license. See the License file for more information.
Compatibility
- License
- MIT
- Crate facts
- Not measured
- Runs on, Native code and Python bindings read crates on crates.io. This entry lists no crate.
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Why ListedNo archive, New or Featured rule places it, so it is Listed.
What it lacks for Featured
- The project is dormant and not finished. Dormancy rule
What else the check found
- The last activity is on 5 Jul 2023, 1223 days ago. That reaches the 365 days the rules expect, so the project is dormant. Dormancy rule
- The oldest outside issue waits 1223 days for a reply, past the limit of 270. No maintainer replied in 365 days. Rot signals rule
Not measured: Latest release, Unpatched vulnerabilities past the grace window, First release.
Exact rules: Listed, Featured app. The check on applied thresholds version 9.
Every rule outcome, as the check records it
expected-interval: app: E = 365 daysdormancy: last activity 2023-07-05, 1223 days ago, E = 365: dormantrot: oldest unanswered issue 1223 days (limit 270), no maintainer reply in 365 daysfeatured: not featured: dormant and not stablelisted: listed: no archive, new or featured rule applies
Measurements and sources
Each signal row shows the raw value, its source and the fetch date. The Sources list gathers every distinct source on this page. Movement needs more history.
Sources4 sources
- Description: the GitHub repository description
- GitHub repository, fetched
- GitHub releases, fetched
- GitHub contributors, fetched
AdoptionNot measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active dependents | Not measured | Yes | ||
| New dependents (365 days) | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Peak active dependents | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Active dependents as a share of the peak | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Binary downloads per release | Not measured | Yes |
MaintenanceLatest human commit: 3 years ago8 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest human commit | 2023-07-05 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Latest release | Not measured | Yes | ||
| First release | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Latest version | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Days the oldest outside issue waits for a reply | 1223 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Maintainer replies over 365 days | 0 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository archived | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository gone | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Release commit or manifest in the repo | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Published docs | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Latest release fails cargo check | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check date | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check toolchain | Not measured | Yes |
SecurityNot measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unpatched vulnerabilities past the grace window | Not measured | Yes | ||
| RustSec unmaintained advisory | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Deprecation notice | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Deprecated requirement | Not measured | Yes |
Distribution0 binary downloads over the last 3 releases10 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Releases | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Downloads over 30 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Binary downloads over the last 3 releases | 0 | GitHub releases | Yes | |
| Homebrew installs on request over 365 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Repology repository families | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Docker pull growth over 90 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Docker pulls at the growth baseline | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version a prerelease | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version 0.0.x | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version yanked | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Crate deleted from crates.io | Not measured | Yes |
Repository440 stars, 26 forks, 2 contributors, 21 commits. Stars alone never qualify a project.1 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 440 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| GitHub forks | 26 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Contributors with a GitHub account | 2 | GitHub contributors | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Commits on the default branch | 21 | GitHub repository | No | |
| Repository's main crate left out of the entry | Not measured | Yes |
Facts that never count
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | MIT | GitHub repository | No | |
| Runs on, from listed crates and their direct dependencies | Not measured | No | ||
| What shows each backend | Not measured | No | ||
| Native code, from listed crates and their dependencies | Not measured | No | ||
| Python bindings, from direct dependencies of listed crates | Not measured | No | ||
| Crates that depend on a listed crate directly | Not measured | No |
Corrections and review history
No correction applies to this entry.
Judgments
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No judgment applies to this entry.