WeaviateIndexer

WeaviateIndexer indexes Documents into a DocumentArray using storage='weaviate'. Underneath, the DocumentArray uses weaviate to store and search Documents efficiently. The indexer relies on DocumentArray as a client for Weaviate, you can read more about the integration here: https://docarray.jina.ai/advanced/document-store/weaviate/

Setup

WeaviateIndexer requires a running Weaviate server. Make sure a server is up and running and your indexer is configured to use it before starting to index documents. For quick testing, you can run a containerized version locally using docker-compose :

docker-compose -f tests/docker-compose.yml up -d

Note that if you run a Weaviate service locally and try to run the WeaviateIndexer via docker, you have to specify 'host': 'host.docker.internal' instead of localhost, otherwise the client will not be able to reach the service from within the container.

Usage

via Docker image (recommended)

from jina import Flow
from docarray import Document
import numpy as np

f = Flow().add(
    uses='jinahub+docker://WeaviateIndexer',
    uses_with={
        'name': 'Indexer',
        'distance': 'cosine',
        'n_dim': 256,
    }
)

with f:
    f.post('/index', inputs=[Document(embedding=np.random.rand(256)) for _ in range(3)])

via source code

from jina import Flow
from docarray import Document
import numpy as np

f = Flow().add(uses='jinahub://WeaviateIndexer',
    uses_with={
        'name': 'Indexer',
        'n_dim': 256,
    }
)

with f:
    f.post('/index', inputs=[Document(embedding=np.random.rand(256)) for _ in range(3)])

CRUD Operations

You can perform CRUD operations (create, read, update and delete) using the respective endpoints:

/index: Add new data to Weaviate.
/search: Query the Weaviate index (created in /index) with your Documents.
/update: Update Documents in Weaviate.
/delete: Delete Documents in Weaviate.

Vector Search

The following example shows how to perform vector search usingf.post(on='/search', inputs=[Document(embedding=np.array([1,1]))]).

from jina import Flow
from docarray import Document
import numpy as np

f = Flow().add(
         uses='jinahub://WeaviateIndexer',
         uses_with={'n_dim': 2},
     )

with f:
    f.post(
        on='/index',
        inputs=[
            Document(id='a', embedding=np.array([1, 3])),
            Document(id='b', embedding=np.array([1, 1])),
        ],
    )

    docs = f.post(
        on='/search',
        inputs=[Document(embedding=np.array([1, 1]))],
    )

# will print "The ID of the best match of [1,1] is: b"
print('The ID of the best match of [1,1] is: ', docs[0].matches[0].id)

Using filtering

To do filtering with the WeaviateIndexer you should first define columns and precise the dimension of your embedding space. For instance :

from jina import Flow

f = Flow().add(
    uses='jinahub+docker://WeaviateIndexer',
    uses_with={
        'name': 'Test',
        'n_dim': 3,
        'columns': [('price', 'float')],
    },
)

Then you can pass a filter as a parameters when searching for document:

from docarray import Document, DocumentArray
import numpy as np

docs = DocumentArray(
    [
        Document(id=f'r{i}', embedding=np.random.rand(3), tags={'price': i})
        for i in range(50)
    ]
)


filter_ = {'path': ['price'], 'operator': 'LessThanEqual', 'valueNumber': 30}

with f:
    f.index(docs)
    doc_query = DocumentArray([Document(embedding=np.random.rand(3))])
    f.search(doc_query, parameters={'filter': filter_})

Search using filter only

You can also search Documents using just a filter query (no vector search involved) using the /filter endpoint. Given the previous setup, you can perform a filter query like so:

filter_ = {'path': ['price'], 'operator': 'LessThanEqual', 'valueInt': 30}
with f:
    f.post('/find', parameters={'filter': filter_})

Limit results

In some cases, you will want to limit the total number of retrieved results. WeaviateIndexer uses the limit argument from the match function to set this limit. Note that when using shards=N, the limit=K is the number of retrieved results for each shard and total number of retrieved results is N*K. By default, limits is set to 20. For more information about shards, please read Jina Documentation

f =  Flow().add(
    uses='jinahub+docker://WeaviateIndexer',
    uses_with={'match_args': {'limit': 10}})

Configure other search behaviors

You can use match_args argument to pass arguments to the match function as below. The match function will be called during /search endpoint.

f =  Flow().add(
     uses='jinahub+docker://WeaviateIndexer',
     uses_with={
         'match_args': {
             'limit': 5, 
}})

For more details about overriding configurations, please refer to this page.
You can find more about the match function at this page.

Configure the Search Behaviors on-the-fly

At search time, you can also pass arguments to config the match function. This can be useful when users want to query with different arguments for different data requests. For instance, the following codes query with a custom limit in parameters and only retrieve the top 100 nearest neighbors. This will override existing match_args if defined during Executor initialization.

with f:
    f.search(
        inputs=Document(text='hello'), 
        parameters={'limit': 100})

For more information please refer to the docarray [documentation](https://docarray.jina.ai/advanced/document-store/weaviate/#vector-search-with-filter)

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