Sept. 7, 2023, 5:26 p.m. | David Mezzetti

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txtai provides a number of default settings to help a developer quickly get started. For example, metadata is stored in SQLite, denses vectors in Faiss, sparse vectors in a terms index and graph data with NetworkX.


Each of these components are customizable and can be swapped with alternate implementations. This has been covered in a number of previous articles.


This article will introduce how to store metadata in client-server RDBMS systems. In addition to SQLite and DuckDB, any SQLAlchemy …

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