## Supabase (Postgres)

> [Supabase](https://supabase.com/docs) is an open-source Firebase alternative. `Supabase` is built on top of `PostgreSQL`, which offers strong SQL querying capabilities and enables a simple interface with already-existing tools and frameworks.

> [PostgreSQL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL) also known as `Postgres`, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.

This notebook shows how to use `Supabase` and `pgvector` as your VectorStore.

To run this notebook, please ensure: - the `pgvector` extension is enabled - you have installed the `supabase-py` package - that you have created a `match_documents` function in your database - that you have a `documents` table in your `public` schema similar to the one below.

The following function determines cosine similarity, but you can adjust to your needs.

```
-- Enable the pgvector extension to work with embedding vectorscreate extension if not exists vector;-- Create a table to store your documentscreate table  documents (    id uuid primary key,    content text, -- corresponds to Document.pageContent    metadata jsonb, -- corresponds to Document.metadata    embedding vector (1536) -- 1536 works for OpenAI embeddings, change if needed  );-- Create a function to search for documentscreate function match_documents (  query_embedding vector (1536),  filter jsonb default '{}') returns table (  id uuid,  content text,  metadata jsonb,  similarity float) language plpgsql as $$#variable_conflict use_columnbegin  return query  select    id,    content,    metadata,    1 - (documents.embedding <=> query_embedding) as similarity  from documents  where metadata @> filter  order by documents.embedding <=> query_embedding;end;$$;
```

```
# with pip%pip install --upgrade --quiet  supabase# with conda# !conda install -c conda-forge supabase
```

We want to use `OpenAIEmbeddings` so we have to get the OpenAI API Key.

```
import getpassimport osos.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("OpenAI API Key:")
```

```
os.environ["SUPABASE_URL"] = getpass.getpass("Supabase URL:")
```

```
os.environ["SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Supabase Service Key:")
```

```
# If you're storing your Supabase and OpenAI API keys in a .env file, you can load them with dotenvfrom dotenv import load_dotenvload_dotenv()
```

First we’ll create a Supabase client and instantiate a OpenAI embeddings class.

```
import osfrom langchain_community.vectorstores import SupabaseVectorStorefrom langchain_openai import OpenAIEmbeddingsfrom supabase.client import Client, create_clientsupabase_url = os.environ.get("SUPABASE_URL")supabase_key = os.environ.get("SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY")supabase: Client = create_client(supabase_url, supabase_key)embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
```

Next we’ll load and parse some data for our vector store (skip if you already have documents with embeddings stored in your DB).

```
from langchain_community.document_loaders import TextLoaderfrom langchain_text_splitters import CharacterTextSplitterloader = TextLoader("../../modules/state_of_the_union.txt")documents = loader.load()text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)docs = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
```

Insert the above documents into the database. Embeddings will automatically be generated for each document. You can adjust the chunk\_size based on the amount of documents you have. The default is 500 but lowering it may be necessary.

```
vector_store = SupabaseVectorStore.from_documents(    docs,    embeddings,    client=supabase,    table_name="documents",    query_name="match_documents",    chunk_size=500,)
```

Alternatively if you already have documents with embeddings in your database, simply instantiate a new `SupabaseVectorStore` directly:

```
vector_store = SupabaseVectorStore(    embedding=embeddings,    client=supabase,    table_name="documents",    query_name="match_documents",)
```

Finally, test it out by performing a similarity search:

```
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"matched_docs = vector_store.similarity_search(query)
```

```
print(matched_docs[0].page_content)
```

```
Tonight. I call on the Senate to: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And while you’re at it, pass the Disclose Act so Americans can know who is funding our elections. Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. One of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Court. And I did that 4 days ago, when I nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation’s top legal minds, who will continue Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence.
```

## Similarity search with score[​](#similarity-search-with-score "Direct link to Similarity search with score")

The returned distance score is cosine distance. Therefore, a lower score is better.

```
matched_docs = vector_store.similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)
```

```
(Document(page_content='Tonight. I call on the Senate to: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And while you’re at it, pass the Disclose Act so Americans can know who is funding our elections. \n\nTonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. \n\nOne of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Court. \n\nAnd I did that 4 days ago, when I nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation’s top legal minds, who will continue Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence.', metadata={'source': '../../../state_of_the_union.txt'}), 0.802509746274066)
```

## Retriever options[​](#retriever-options "Direct link to Retriever options")

This section goes over different options for how to use SupabaseVectorStore as a retriever.

### Maximal Marginal Relevance Searches[​](#maximal-marginal-relevance-searches "Direct link to Maximal Marginal Relevance Searches")

In addition to using similarity search in the retriever object, you can also use `mmr`.

```
retriever = vector_store.as_retriever(search_type="mmr")
```

```
matched_docs = retriever.get_relevant_documents(query)
```

```
for i, d in enumerate(matched_docs):    print(f"\n## Document {i}\n")    print(d.page_content)
```

```
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```