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0.7.0	Mar 19, 2025
0.6.0	Dec 13, 2024
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valentinus

next generation vector db built with lmdb bindings

dependencies

bincode/serde - serialize/deserialize
lmdb-rs - database bindings
ndarray - numpy equivalent
ort/onnx - embeddings

getting started

git clone https://github.com/kn0sys/valentinus && cd valentinus

optional environment variables

var	usage	default
`LMDB_USER`	working directory of the user for database	$USER
`LMDB_MAP_SIZE`	Sets max environment size, i.e. size in memory/disk of all data	20% of available memory
`ONNX_PARALLEL_THREADS`	parallel execution mode for this session	1
`VALENTINUS_CUSTOM_DIM`	embeddings dimensions for custom models	all-mini-lm-6 -> 384
`VALENTINUS_LMDB_ENV`	environment for the database (i.e. test, prod)	test

tests

Note: all tests currently require the all-MiniLM-L6-v2_onnx directory
Get the model.onnx and tokenizer.json from huggingface or build them

mkdir all-MiniLM-L6-v2_onnx
cd all-MiniLM-L6-v2_onnx && wget https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/config.json
wget https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/onnx/model.onnx
wget https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/special_tokens_map.json
wget https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/main/tokenizer_config.json
wget https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/main/tokenizer.json
wget https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/main/vocab.txt

RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test

examples

see examples

reference

inspired by this chromadb python tutorial

Dependencies

~23MB
~473K SLoC