The vector database most RAG tutorials reach for first - simple enough to be running locally in minutes, which makes it the natural on-ramp before evaluating heavier options.
Where chroma fits, based on its real tags and topics.
git clone https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma.gitSee the repository's README for language-specific setup steps.
Chroma - the open-source data infrastructure for AI.
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):
Category: 🛢️ Databases
Difficulty: Beginner
“The most widely adopted framework for chaining LLM calls, tools, and retrieval into real applications - a near-default starting point for RAG and agent projects.”
“The default choice for production React today - server components, file-based routing, and first-class deployment story make it the fastest path from idea to shipped app.”
“Utility-first CSS that's become the default styling approach for new projects - fast to write, easy to keep consistent, no dead CSS to prune later.”
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
“A fast, all-in-one vulnerability scanner - containers, filesystems, git repos, and Terraform/IaC misconfigurations all covered by one CLI tool.”
The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
“A genuinely open-source Firebase alternative - real Postgres underneath, with auth, storage, and realtime built in rather than a proprietary database.”
“The most capable open-source relational database available - strong standards compliance, extensions for nearly everything (including full-text search and vectors), and a default choice for good reason.”
“A schema-first ORM with genuinely excellent TypeScript autocompletion and a smooth migration story - the most approachable ORM for a Node/TS backend today.”
“A lighter, more SQL-like alternative to Prisma - less abstraction, less runtime overhead, and queries that read close to the SQL they generate.”
“The standard in-memory data store - caching is the obvious use case, but its data structures (lists, sets, sorted sets, streams) cover far more than that.”
“Brings analytical SQL performance to local development without requiring a separate database server.”
“The industry-standard container orchestrator - not always necessary at small scale, but the default assumption for any serious cloud-native platform team.”
“Unifies dozens of LLM providers behind a single API, making model switching almost effortless in production.”
“The standard library for working with open-weight models - thousands of pretrained models are one line of code away.”
“The modern default frontend build tool - native ESM in dev means a dev server that starts and reloads almost instantly, even on large apps.”
“The open-source engine behind Docker - understanding containers here pays off no matter which orchestrator sits on top later.”
“The standard tool for infrastructure-as-code across every major cloud provider - one declarative language instead of provider-specific consoles or scripts.”
