ChromaDB
Easy — everyone uses thisDatabase
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
You're hacking together an AI chatbot at 2am. You don't want to provision cloud infrastructure. ChromaDB lets you store and query embeddings with pip install and 5 lines of Python. It's the SQLite of vector databases — perfect until your demo actually goes to prod.
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