Chroma is a document-oriented DBMS designed to support the generation and searches on embeddings generated from LLMs.
- Source Code
- https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma[02]
- Developer
- Country of Origin
- US
- Start Year
- 2022 [08]
- Acquired By
- Project Types
- Commercial, Open Source
- Written in
- Python
- Supported Languages
- JavaScript, Python
- License
- Apache v2
- @trychroma[05]
Chroma is a document-oriented DBMS designed to support the generation and searches on embeddings generated from LLMs.
History[06][07]
The company was acquired by Replit in 2026 and announced they will be shutting down their hosted cloud service.
Citations
10 sources- Chroma - open-source search infrastructure for AI trychroma.com
- GitHub - chroma-core/chroma: Search infrastructure for AI · GitHub github.com
- Introduction - Chroma Docs trychroma.com
- https://www.trychroma.com/updates trychroma.com
- https://twitter.com/trychroma twitter.com
- https://www.trychroma.com/cloud-wind-down trychroma.com
- https://alphasignal.ai/news/replit-acquires-chromadb-and-shuts-down-chroma-cloud-in-60-days alphasignal.ai
- Initial commit github.com
- https://www.trychroma.com/blog/chroma-joins-replit trychroma.com
- https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/commit/b8bf7649410431f7980cd53b8d1d576ac218b7c9 github.com
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