Chroma (vector database)

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Chroma
Developer(s) Chroma
Initial releaseOctober 22, 2022;2 years ago (2022-10-22)
Stable release
v1.0.15 / July 2, 2025;35 days ago (2025-07-02).: [1]
Repository github.com/chroma-core/chroma
Written in Rust, Python, TypeScript, Go
Operating system Linux, macOS, Windows
Platform x86
Type Vector database
License Apache License 2.0
Website trychroma.com

Chroma or ChromaDB is an open-source vector database tailored to applications with large language models. [2]

Its headquarters are in San Francisco. In April 2023, it raised 18 million US dollars as seed funding. [3]

ChromaDB has been used in academic studies on artificial intelligence, particularly as part of the tech stack for retrieval-augmented generation. [4] [5]

References

  1. "Release notes for Chroma v1.0.15". GitHub .
  2. MSV, Janakiram (July 28, 2023). "Exploring Chroma: The Open Source Vector Database for LLMs". The New Stack. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  3. "Chroma funding: Database provider raises $18M for AI-Powered Database". SiliconANGLE. April 6, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  4. Toro, Sabrina; Anagnostopoulos, Anna V.; Bello, Sue; Blumberg, Kai; Cameron, Rhiannon; Carmody, Leigh; Diehl, Alexander D.; Dooley, Damion; Duncan, William (June 12, 2024), "Dynamic Retrieval Augmented Generation of Ontologies using Artificial Intelligence (DRAGON-AI)", Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 15 (1): 19, arXiv: 2312.10904 , doi: 10.1186/s13326-024-00320-3 , PMC   11484368 , PMID   39415214
  5. Caspari, Laura; Dastidar, Kanishka Ghosh; Zerhoudi, Saber; Mitrovic, Jelena; Granitzer, Michael (July 11, 2024), Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating Embedding Model Similarity for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems, arXiv: 2407.08275