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Qdrant integration for Haystack

Module haystack_integrations.components.retrievers.qdrant.retriever

QdrantEmbeddingRetriever

A component for retrieving documents from an QdrantDocumentStore using dense vectors.

Usage example:

from haystack.dataclasses import Document
from haystack_integrations.components.retrievers.qdrant import QdrantEmbeddingRetriever
from haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant import QdrantDocumentStore

document_store = QdrantDocumentStore(
    ":memory:",
    recreate_index=True,
    return_embedding=True,
)

document_store.write_documents([Document(content="test", embedding=[0.5]*768)])

retriever = QdrantEmbeddingRetriever(document_store=document_store)

# using a fake vector to keep the example simple
retriever.run(query_embedding=[0.1]*768)

QdrantEmbeddingRetriever.__init__

def __init__(document_store: QdrantDocumentStore,
             filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
             top_k: int = 10,
             scale_score: bool = False,
             return_embedding: bool = False,
             filter_policy: Union[str, FilterPolicy] = FilterPolicy.REPLACE,
             score_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
             group_by: Optional[str] = None,
             group_size: Optional[int] = None)

Create a QdrantEmbeddingRetriever component.

Arguments:

  • document_store: An instance of QdrantDocumentStore.
  • filters: A dictionary with filters to narrow down the search space.
  • top_k: The maximum number of documents to retrieve. If using group_by parameters, maximum number of groups to return.
  • scale_score: Whether to scale the scores of the retrieved documents or not.
  • return_embedding: Whether to return the embedding of the retrieved Documents.
  • filter_policy: Policy to determine how filters are applied.
  • score_threshold: A minimal score threshold for the result. Score of the returned result might be higher or smaller than the threshold depending on the similarity function specified in the Document Store. E.g. for cosine similarity only higher scores will be returned.
  • group_by: Payload field to group by, must be a string or number field. If the field contains more than 1 value, all values will be used for grouping. One point can be in multiple groups.
  • group_size: Maximum amount of points to return per group. Default is 3.

Raises:

  • ValueError: If document_store is not an instance of QdrantDocumentStore.

QdrantEmbeddingRetriever.to_dict

def to_dict() -> Dict[str, Any]

Serializes the component to a dictionary.

Returns:

Dictionary with serialized data.

QdrantEmbeddingRetriever.from_dict

@classmethod
def from_dict(cls, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> "QdrantEmbeddingRetriever"

Deserializes the component from a dictionary.

Arguments:

  • data: Dictionary to deserialize from.

Returns:

Deserialized component.

QdrantEmbeddingRetriever.run

@component.output_types(documents=List[Document])
def run(query_embedding: List[float],
        filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
        top_k: Optional[int] = None,
        scale_score: Optional[bool] = None,
        return_embedding: Optional[bool] = None,
        score_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
        group_by: Optional[str] = None,
        group_size: Optional[int] = None)

Run the Embedding Retriever on the given input data.

Arguments:

  • query_embedding: Embedding of the query.
  • filters: A dictionary with filters to narrow down the search space.
  • top_k: The maximum number of documents to return. If using group_by parameters, maximum number of groups to return.
  • scale_score: Whether to scale the scores of the retrieved documents or not.
  • return_embedding: Whether to return the embedding of the retrieved Documents.
  • score_threshold: A minimal score threshold for the result.
  • group_by: Payload field to group by, must be a string or number field. If the field contains more than 1 value, all values will be used for grouping. One point can be in multiple groups.
  • group_size: Maximum amount of points to return per group. Default is 3.

Returns:

The retrieved documents.

QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever

A component for retrieving documents from an QdrantDocumentStore using sparse vectors.

Usage example:

from haystack_integrations.components.retrievers.qdrant import QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever
from haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant import QdrantDocumentStore
from haystack.dataclasses import Document, SparseEmbedding

document_store = QdrantDocumentStore(
    ":memory:",
    use_sparse_embeddings=True,
    recreate_index=True,
    return_embedding=True,
)

doc = Document(content="test", sparse_embedding=SparseEmbedding(indices=[0, 3, 5], values=[0.1, 0.5, 0.12]))
document_store.write_documents([doc])

retriever = QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever(document_store=document_store)
sparse_embedding = SparseEmbedding(indices=[0, 1, 2, 3], values=[0.1, 0.8, 0.05, 0.33])
retriever.run(query_sparse_embedding=sparse_embedding)

QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever.__init__

def __init__(document_store: QdrantDocumentStore,
             filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
             top_k: int = 10,
             scale_score: bool = False,
             return_embedding: bool = False,
             filter_policy: Union[str, FilterPolicy] = FilterPolicy.REPLACE,
             score_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
             group_by: Optional[str] = None,
             group_size: Optional[int] = None)

Create a QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever component.

Arguments:

  • document_store: An instance of QdrantDocumentStore.
  • filters: A dictionary with filters to narrow down the search space.
  • top_k: The maximum number of documents to retrieve. If using group_by parameters, maximum number of groups to return.
  • scale_score: Whether to scale the scores of the retrieved documents or not.
  • return_embedding: Whether to return the sparse embedding of the retrieved Documents.
  • filter_policy: Policy to determine how filters are applied. Defaults to "replace".
  • score_threshold: A minimal score threshold for the result. Score of the returned result might be higher or smaller than the threshold depending on the Distance function used. E.g. for cosine similarity only higher scores will be returned.
  • group_by: Payload field to group by, must be a string or number field. If the field contains more than 1 value, all values will be used for grouping. One point can be in multiple groups.
  • group_size: Maximum amount of points to return per group. Default is 3.

Raises:

  • ValueError: If document_store is not an instance of QdrantDocumentStore.

QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever.to_dict

def to_dict() -> Dict[str, Any]

Serializes the component to a dictionary.

Returns:

Dictionary with serialized data.

QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever.from_dict

@classmethod
def from_dict(cls, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> "QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever"

Deserializes the component from a dictionary.

Arguments:

  • data: Dictionary to deserialize from.

Returns:

Deserialized component.

QdrantSparseEmbeddingRetriever.run

@component.output_types(documents=List[Document])
def run(query_sparse_embedding: SparseEmbedding,
        filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
        top_k: Optional[int] = None,
        scale_score: Optional[bool] = None,
        return_embedding: Optional[bool] = None,
        score_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
        group_by: Optional[str] = None,
        group_size: Optional[int] = None)

Run the Sparse Embedding Retriever on the given input data.

Arguments:

  • query_sparse_embedding: Sparse Embedding of the query.
  • filters: Filters applied to the retrieved Documents. The way runtime filters are applied depends on the filter_policy chosen at retriever initialization. See init method docstring for more details.
  • top_k: The maximum number of documents to return. If using group_by parameters, maximum number of groups to return.
  • scale_score: Whether to scale the scores of the retrieved documents or not.
  • return_embedding: Whether to return the embedding of the retrieved Documents.
  • score_threshold: A minimal score threshold for the result. Score of the returned result might be higher or smaller than the threshold depending on the Distance function used. E.g. for cosine similarity only higher scores will be returned.
  • group_by: Payload field to group by, must be a string or number field. If the field contains more than 1 value, all values will be used for grouping. One point can be in multiple groups.
  • group_size: Maximum amount of points to return per group. Default is 3.

Returns:

The retrieved documents.

QdrantHybridRetriever

A component for retrieving documents from an QdrantDocumentStore using both dense and sparse vectors and fusing the results using Reciprocal Rank Fusion.

Usage example:

from haystack_integrations.components.retrievers.qdrant import QdrantHybridRetriever
from haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant import QdrantDocumentStore
from haystack.dataclasses import Document, SparseEmbedding

document_store = QdrantDocumentStore(
    ":memory:",
    use_sparse_embeddings=True,
    recreate_index=True,
    return_embedding=True,
    wait_result_from_api=True,
)

doc = Document(content="test",
               embedding=[0.5]*768,
               sparse_embedding=SparseEmbedding(indices=[0, 3, 5], values=[0.1, 0.5, 0.12]))

document_store.write_documents([doc])

retriever = QdrantHybridRetriever(document_store=document_store)
embedding = [0.1]*768
sparse_embedding = SparseEmbedding(indices=[0, 1, 2, 3], values=[0.1, 0.8, 0.05, 0.33])
retriever.run(query_embedding=embedding, query_sparse_embedding=sparse_embedding)

QdrantHybridRetriever.__init__

def __init__(document_store: QdrantDocumentStore,
             filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
             top_k: int = 10,
             return_embedding: bool = False,
             filter_policy: Union[str, FilterPolicy] = FilterPolicy.REPLACE,
             score_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
             group_by: Optional[str] = None,
             group_size: Optional[int] = None)

Create a QdrantHybridRetriever component.

Arguments:

  • document_store: An instance of QdrantDocumentStore.
  • filters: A dictionary with filters to narrow down the search space.
  • top_k: The maximum number of documents to retrieve. If using group_by parameters, maximum number of groups to return.
  • return_embedding: Whether to return the embeddings of the retrieved Documents.
  • filter_policy: Policy to determine how filters are applied.
  • score_threshold: A minimal score threshold for the result. Score of the returned result might be higher or smaller than the threshold depending on the Distance function used. E.g. for cosine similarity only higher scores will be returned.
  • group_by: Payload field to group by, must be a string or number field. If the field contains more than 1 value, all values will be used for grouping. One point can be in multiple groups.
  • group_size: Maximum amount of points to return per group. Default is 3.

Raises:

  • ValueError: If 'document_store' is not an instance of QdrantDocumentStore.

QdrantHybridRetriever.to_dict

def to_dict() -> Dict[str, Any]

Serializes the component to a dictionary.

Returns:

Dictionary with serialized data.

QdrantHybridRetriever.from_dict

@classmethod
def from_dict(cls, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> "QdrantHybridRetriever"

Deserializes the component from a dictionary.

Arguments:

  • data: Dictionary to deserialize from.

Returns:

Deserialized component.

QdrantHybridRetriever.run

@component.output_types(documents=List[Document])
def run(query_embedding: List[float],
        query_sparse_embedding: SparseEmbedding,
        filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
        top_k: Optional[int] = None,
        return_embedding: Optional[bool] = None,
        score_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
        group_by: Optional[str] = None,
        group_size: Optional[int] = None)

Run the Sparse Embedding Retriever on the given input data.

Arguments:

  • query_embedding: Dense embedding of the query.
  • query_sparse_embedding: Sparse embedding of the query.
  • filters: Filters applied to the retrieved Documents. The way runtime filters are applied depends on the filter_policy chosen at retriever initialization. See init method docstring for more details.
  • top_k: The maximum number of documents to return. If using group_by parameters, maximum number of groups to return.
  • return_embedding: Whether to return the embedding of the retrieved Documents.
  • score_threshold: A minimal score threshold for the result. Score of the returned result might be higher or smaller than the threshold depending on the Distance function used. E.g. for cosine similarity only higher scores will be returned.
  • group_by: Payload field to group by, must be a string or number field. If the field contains more than 1 value, all values will be used for grouping. One point can be in multiple groups.
  • group_size: Maximum amount of points to return per group. Default is 3.

Returns:

The retrieved documents.

Module haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant.document_store

get_batches_from_generator

def get_batches_from_generator(iterable, n)

Batch elements of an iterable into fixed-length chunks or blocks.

QdrantDocumentStore

QdrantDocumentStore is a Document Store for Qdrant. It can be used with any Qdrant instance: in-memory, disk-persisted, Docker-based, and Qdrant Cloud Cluster deployments.

Usage example by creating an in-memory instance:

from haystack.dataclasses.document import Document
from haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant import QdrantDocumentStore

document_store = QdrantDocumentStore(
    ":memory:",
    recreate_index=True
)
document_store.write_documents([
    Document(content="This is first", embedding=[0.0]*5),
    Document(content="This is second", embedding=[0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5])
])

Usage example with Qdrant Cloud:

from haystack.dataclasses.document import Document
from haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant import QdrantDocumentStore

document_store = QdrantDocumentStore(
        url="https://xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx.us-east.aws.cloud.qdrant.io:6333",
    api_key="<your-api-key>",
)
document_store.write_documents([
    Document(content="This is first", embedding=[0.0]*5),
    Document(content="This is second", embedding=[0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5])
])

QdrantDocumentStore.__init__

def __init__(location: Optional[str] = None,
             url: Optional[str] = None,
             port: int = 6333,
             grpc_port: int = 6334,
             prefer_grpc: bool = False,
             https: Optional[bool] = None,
             api_key: Optional[Secret] = None,
             prefix: Optional[str] = None,
             timeout: Optional[int] = None,
             host: Optional[str] = None,
             path: Optional[str] = None,
             force_disable_check_same_thread: bool = False,
             index: str = "Document",
             embedding_dim: int = 768,
             on_disk: bool = False,
             use_sparse_embeddings: bool = False,
             sparse_idf: bool = False,
             similarity: str = "cosine",
             return_embedding: bool = False,
             progress_bar: bool = True,
             recreate_index: bool = False,
             shard_number: Optional[int] = None,
             replication_factor: Optional[int] = None,
             write_consistency_factor: Optional[int] = None,
             on_disk_payload: Optional[bool] = None,
             hnsw_config: Optional[dict] = None,
             optimizers_config: Optional[dict] = None,
             wal_config: Optional[dict] = None,
             quantization_config: Optional[dict] = None,
             init_from: Optional[dict] = None,
             wait_result_from_api: bool = True,
             metadata: Optional[dict] = None,
             write_batch_size: int = 100,
             scroll_size: int = 10_000,
             payload_fields_to_index: Optional[List[dict]] = None)

Arguments:

  • location: If memory - use in-memory Qdrant instance. If str - use it as a URL parameter. If None - use default values for host and port.
  • url: Either host or str of Optional[scheme], host, Optional[port], Optional[prefix].
  • port: Port of the REST API interface.
  • grpc_port: Port of the gRPC interface.
  • prefer_grpc: If True - use gRPC interface whenever possible in custom methods.
  • https: If True - use HTTPS(SSL) protocol.
  • api_key: API key for authentication in Qdrant Cloud.
  • prefix: If not None - add prefix to the REST URL path. Example: service/v1 will result in http://localhost:6333/service/v1/{qdrant-endpoint} for REST API.
  • timeout: Timeout for REST and gRPC API requests.
  • host: Host name of Qdrant service. If ùrlandhostareNone, set to localhost`.
  • path: Persistence path for QdrantLocal.
  • force_disable_check_same_thread: For QdrantLocal, force disable check_same_thread. Only use this if you can guarantee that you can resolve the thread safety outside QdrantClient.
  • index: Name of the index.
  • embedding_dim: Dimension of the embeddings.
  • on_disk: Whether to store the collection on disk.
  • use_sparse_embedding: If set to True, enables support for sparse embeddings.
  • sparse_idf: If set to True, computes the Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) when using sparse embeddings. It is required to use techniques like BM42. It is ignored if use_sparse_embeddings is False.
  • similarity: The similarity metric to use.
  • return_embedding: Whether to return embeddings in the search results.
  • progress_bar: Whether to show a progress bar or not.
  • recreate_index: Whether to recreate the index.
  • shard_number: Number of shards in the collection.
  • replication_factor: Replication factor for the collection. Defines how many copies of each shard will be created. Effective only in distributed mode.
  • write_consistency_factor: Write consistency factor for the collection. Minimum value is 1. Defines how many replicas should apply to the operation for it to be considered successful. Increasing this number makes the collection more resilient to inconsistencies but will cause failures if not enough replicas are available. Effective only in distributed mode.
  • on_disk_payload: If True, the point's payload will not be stored in memory and will be read from the disk every time it is requested. This setting saves RAM by slightly increasing response time. Note: indexed payload values remain in RAM.
  • hnsw_config: Params for HNSW index.
  • optimizers_config: Params for optimizer.
  • wal_config: Params for Write-Ahead-Log.
  • quantization_config: Params for quantization. If None, quantization will be disabled.
  • init_from: Use data stored in another collection to initialize this collection.
  • wait_result_from_api: Whether to wait for the result from the API after each request.
  • metadata: Additional metadata to include with the documents.
  • write_batch_size: The batch size for writing documents.
  • scroll_size: The scroll size for reading documents.
  • payload_fields_to_index: List of payload fields to index.

QdrantDocumentStore.count_documents

def count_documents() -> int

Returns the number of documents present in the Document Store.

QdrantDocumentStore.filter_documents

def filter_documents(
    filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], rest.Filter]] = None
) -> List[Document]

Returns the documents that match the provided filters.

For a detailed specification of the filters, refer to the documentation

Arguments:

  • filters: The filters to apply to the document list.

Returns:

A list of documents that match the given filters.

QdrantDocumentStore.write_documents

def write_documents(documents: List[Document],
                    policy: DuplicatePolicy = DuplicatePolicy.FAIL) -> int

Writes documents to Qdrant using the specified policy.

The QdrantDocumentStore can handle duplicate documents based on the given policy. The available policies are:

  • FAIL: The operation will raise an error if any document already exists.
  • OVERWRITE: Existing documents will be overwritten with the new ones.
  • SKIP: Existing documents will be skipped, and only new documents will be added.

Arguments:

  • documents: A list of Document objects to write to Qdrant.
  • policy: The policy for handling duplicate documents.

Returns:

The number of documents written to the document store.

QdrantDocumentStore.delete_documents

def delete_documents(document_ids: List[str]) -> None

Deletes documents that match the provided document_ids from the document store.

Arguments:

  • document_ids: the document ids to delete

QdrantDocumentStore.from_dict

@classmethod
def from_dict(cls, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> "QdrantDocumentStore"

Deserializes the component from a dictionary.

Arguments:

  • data: The dictionary to deserialize from.

Returns:

The deserialized component.

QdrantDocumentStore.to_dict

def to_dict() -> Dict[str, Any]

Serializes the component to a dictionary.

Returns:

Dictionary with serialized data.

QdrantDocumentStore.get_documents_generator

def get_documents_generator(
    filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], rest.Filter]] = None
) -> Generator[Document, None, None]

Returns a generator that yields documents from Qdrant based on the provided filters.

Arguments:

  • filters: Filters applied to the retrieved documents.

Returns:

A generator that yields documents retrieved from Qdrant.

QdrantDocumentStore.get_documents_by_id

def get_documents_by_id(ids: List[str]) -> List[Document]

Retrieves documents from Qdrant by their IDs.

Arguments:

  • ids: A list of document IDs to retrieve.
  • index: The name of the index to retrieve documents from.

Returns:

A list of documents.

QdrantDocumentStore.get_distance

def get_distance(similarity: str) -> rest.Distance

Retrieves the distance metric for the specified similarity measure.

Arguments:

  • similarity: The similarity measure to retrieve the distance.

Raises:

  • QdrantStoreError: If the provided similarity measure is not supported.

Returns:

The corresponding rest.Distance object.

QdrantDocumentStore.recreate_collection

def recreate_collection(collection_name: str,
                        distance,
                        embedding_dim: int,
                        on_disk: Optional[bool] = None,
                        use_sparse_embeddings: Optional[bool] = None,
                        sparse_idf: bool = False)

Recreates the Qdrant collection with the specified parameters.

Arguments:

  • collection_name: The name of the collection to recreate.
  • distance: The distance metric to use for the collection.
  • embedding_dim: The dimension of the embeddings.
  • on_disk: Whether to store the collection on disk.
  • use_sparse_embeddings: Whether to use sparse embeddings.
  • sparse_idf: Whether to compute the Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) when using sparse embeddings. Required for BM42.

Module haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant.migrate_to_sparse

migrate_to_sparse_embeddings_support

def migrate_to_sparse_embeddings_support(
        old_document_store: QdrantDocumentStore, new_index: str)

Utility function to migrate an existing QdrantDocumentStore to a new one with support for sparse embeddings.

With qdrant-hasytack v3.3.0, support for sparse embeddings has been added to QdrantDocumentStore. This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting use_sparse_embeddings=True in the init parameters. To store sparse embeddings, Document stores/collections created with this feature disabled must be migrated to a new collection with the feature enabled.

This utility function applies to on-premise and cloud instances of Qdrant. It does not work for local in-memory/disk-persisted instances.

The utility function merely migrates the existing documents so that they are ready to store sparse embeddings. It does not compute sparse embeddings. To do this, you need to use a Sparse Embedder component.

Example usage:

from haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant import QdrantDocumentStore
from haystack_integrations.document_stores.qdrant import migrate_to_sparse_embeddings_support

old_document_store = QdrantDocumentStore(url="http://localhost:6333",
                                         index="Document",
                                         use_sparse_embeddings=False)
new_index = "Document_sparse"

migrate_to_sparse_embeddings_support(old_document_store, new_index)

# now you can use the new document store with sparse embeddings support
new_document_store = QdrantDocumentStore(url="http://localhost:6333",
                                         index=new_index,
                                         use_sparse_embeddings=True)

Arguments:

  • old_document_store: The existing QdrantDocumentStore instance to migrate from.
  • new_index: The name of the new index/collection to create with sparse embeddings support.