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Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that offers high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. It offers PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server database engines. Extend your database application to build AI-powered experiences leveraging Cloud SQLโ€™s LangChain integrations.
This notebook goes over how to use Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to store vector embeddings with the PostgresVectorStore class. Learn more about the package on GitHub. Open In Colab

Before you begin

To run this notebook, you will need to do the following:

๐Ÿฆœ๐Ÿ”— Library installation

Install the integration library, langchain-google-cloud-sql-pg, and the library for the embedding service, langchain-google-vertexai.
Colab only: Uncomment the following cell to restart the kernel or use the button to restart the kernel. For Vertex AI Workbench you can restart the terminal using the button on top.

๐Ÿ” Authentication

Authenticate to Google Cloud as the IAM user logged into this notebook in order to access your Google Cloud Project.

โ˜ Set your Google cloud project

Set your Google Cloud project so that you can leverage Google Cloud resources within this notebook. If you donโ€™t know your project ID, try the following:

Basic usage

Set cloud SQL database values

Find your database values, in the Cloud SQL Instances page.

PostgresEngine connection pool

One of the requirements and arguments to establish Cloud SQL as a vector store is a PostgresEngine object. The PostgresEngine configures a connection pool to your Cloud SQL database, enabling successful connections from your application and following industry best practices. To create a PostgresEngine using PostgresEngine.from_instance() you need to provide only 4 things:
  1. project_id : Project ID of the Google Cloud Project where the Cloud SQL instance is located.
  2. region : Region where the Cloud SQL instance is located.
  3. instance : The name of the Cloud SQL instance.
  4. database : The name of the database to connect to on the Cloud SQL instance.
By default, IAM database authentication will be used as the method of database authentication. This library uses the IAM principal belonging to the Application Default Credentials (ADC) sourced from the environment. For more information on IAM database authentication please see: Optionally, built-in database authentication using a username and password to access the Cloud SQL database can also be used. Just provide the optional user and password arguments to PostgresEngine.from_instance():
  • user : Database user to use for built-in database authentication and login
  • password : Database password to use for built-in database authentication and login.
โ€œNote: This tutorial demonstrates the async interface. All async methods have corresponding sync methods.โ€

Initialize a table

The PostgresVectorStore class requires a database table. The PostgresEngine engine has a helper method init_vectorstore_table() that can be used to create a table with the proper schema for you.

Create an embedding class instance

You can use any LangChain embeddings model. You may need to enable Vertex AI API to use VertexAIEmbeddings. We recommend setting the embedding modelโ€™s version for production, learn more about the Text embeddings models.

Initialize a default PostgresVectorStore

Add texts

Delete texts

Search for documents

Search for documents by vector

Add an index

Speed up vector search queries by applying a vector index. Learn more about vector indexes.

Re-index

Remove an index

Create a custom vector store

A Vector Store can take advantage of relational data to filter similarity searches. Create a table with custom metadata columns.

Search for documents with metadata filter