# Directory to store vector_dbs files
This directory has make files and container files for open source vector databases. The built container images are used by recipes like `rag` to provide required database functions.

## Chroma
[Chroma](https://www.trychroma.com/) is an AI-native open-source embedding database.
Chroma makes it easy to build LLM apps by making knowledge, facts, and skills
pluggable for LLMs.

## Milvus
[Milvus](https://milvus.io/) is an open-source vector database built to power embedding similarity search and AI applications. It is highly scalable and offers many production ready features for search.