Vector Storage with Weaviate
2024-06-26 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
We’re going to add in a new topic to the NASA RAG series this week, so check below for some rearranging of the schedule. As always, if there is something that you would like to talk about (or have someone cover) – please let me know!
After a few rounds of iteration using ChromaDB for vector storage, it has become apparent that there are better options. While it is possible to run ChromaDB locally, it has too large of a footprint to run alongside the other components to develop a RAG prototype. I’ve spent a few hours replacing the ChromaDB integration with Weaviate, and I’m quite happy with the results.
In this session, we’ll cover everything you need to know to get started with Weaviate. There are several options that I’m not using for the NASA RAG, but may be relevant for other types of products that you may want to build.

Series:
Over the next several sessions, we will be diving deeper into separate components needed for RAG – hopefully resulting in a chat-based Q&A service for the NASA Technical Report Server. We were introduced to this data during our submission for the 2022 NASA SpaceApps Challenge – where we placed 2nd. Our submission was a semantic search based on the abstracts for the NSTR dataset of 10,000 papers.
Links:

Huntsville AI 2022 SpaceApps Submission – https://github.com/HSV-AI/spaceapps2022
https://weaviate.io/platform
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate

Details:

Date – 06/26/2024
Time – 6-7pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom –https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89078627184?pwd=[REDACTED]
