VSS Examples

Examples of Vector Similarity Search (VSS) in Python

Blog

https://joeywhelan.blogspot.com/2022/12/redis-vector-similarity-search.html

Features

• Provides examples of how to conduct straight vector and hybrid VSS searches.

Prerequisites

• Python
• Download of images from Kaggle site - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/paramaggarwal/fashion-product-images-dataset
• RediSearch 2.6/Redis JSON 2.4.

Installation

1. Clone this repo.

2. Create an images folder in the data folder and download the images from the URL above.

3. Install Python requirements (either in a virtual env or global)

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Options

• --url. Redis connection string. Default = redis://localhost:6379
• --objecttype. Redis Object Type. Default = json
• --indextype. Redis VSS Index Type. Default = flat
• --metrictype. Redis VSS Metric Type. Default = l2

Execution

python3 example.py --objecttype json --indextype hnsw --metrictype cosine

Output

Vector Query

Query Vector Image ID:58452

ID	Score
58452	0
31863	0.12
46314	0.13
33909	0.22
22945	0.24

Hybrid Query

Query Vector Image ID:58452

Hybrid Query String: 2107|2656|25155|40953|34242

ID	Score
2656	0.4
40953	0.42
34242	0.49
25155	0.51
2107	0.52