258  chromadb(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

258.1 chromadb

chromadb - Chroma — AI-native embedding database (python package + server).

Layer OPS
Category o-03-vector-stores-retrieval
Safety class safe
Licence Apache-2.0
Upstream github.com/chroma-core/chroma

258.1.1 NAME

chromadb - Chroma — AI-native embedding database (python package + server).

258.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

pip install chromadb # python client
# for javascript, npm install chromadb!
# for client-server mode, chroma run --path /chroma_db_path

258.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

Docs Homepage pip install chromadb # python client Our hosted service, Chroma Cloud, powers serverless vector, hybrid, and full-text search. It’s extremely fast, cost-effective, scalable and painless. Create a DB and try it out in under 30 seconds with $5 of free credits. The core API is only 4 functions (run our 💡 Google Colab): import chromadb client = chromadb.Client() collection = client.create_collection(“all-my-documents”) collection.add( documents=[“This is document1”, “This is document2”], # we handle tokenization, embedding, and indexing automatically. You can skip that and add your own embeddin

258.1.4 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14