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Chroma is an open-source AI search infrastructure that provides fast, scalable search capabilities—including vector, full-text, lexical (BM25/SPLADE), regex, and metadata search—built on object storage. It supports querying billions of multi-tenant indexes with low latency and automatic data tiering, delivering zero-ops management and serverless pricing. It can be deployed cloud-native or BYOC in a VPC, with multi-cloud/multi-region replication and an Apache 2.0 license.
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