Summary: LlamaIndex integrates with Lakebase Postgres as a vector store via the pgvector extension, enabling RAG pipelines, semantic search, and AI chatbots backed by serverless Postgres. Use this page to wire up PGVectorStore, generate OpenAI embeddings, and stream chat completions through ContextChatEngine in a Next.js API route. Includes TypeScript code for initialization and streaming, plus links to starter apps for chatbot, RAG, semantic search, reverse image search, and PDF chat.

Build AI applications faster with LlamaIndex and Postgres

LlamaIndex is a popular framework for working with AI, Vectors, and embeddings. LlamaIndex supports using Neon as a vector store, using the pgvector extension.

LlamaIndex simplifies the complexity of managing document insertion and embeddings generation using vector stores by providing streamlined methods for these tasks.

Here's how you can initialize Postgres Vector with LlamaIndex:

// File: vectorStore.ts

import { OpenAIEmbedding, Settings } from 'llamaindex';
import { PGVectorStore } from 'llamaindex/storage/vectorStore/PGVectorStore';

Settings.embedModel = new OpenAIEmbedding({
  dimensions: 512,
  model: 'text-embedding-3-small',
});

const vectorStore = new PGVectorStore({
  dimensions: 512,
  connectionString: process.env.POSTGRES_URL,
});

export default vectorStore;

// Use in your code (say, in API routes)
const index = await VectorStoreIndex.fromVectorStore(vectorStore);

LlamaIndex handles embedding generation internally while adding vectors to the Postgres database, simplifying the process for users. For more detailed control over embeddings, refer to the respective JavaScript and Python documentation.

LlamaIndex can find similar documents to the user's latest query and invoke the OpenAI API to power chat completion responses, providing a seamless integration for creating dynamic interactions.

Here's how you can power chat completions in an API route:

import vectorStore from './vectorStore';

import { ContextChatEngine, VectorStoreIndex } from 'llamaindex';

interface Message {
  role: 'user' | 'assistant' | 'system' | 'memory';
  content: string;
}

export async function POST(request: Request) {
  const encoder = new TextEncoder();
  const { messages = [] } = (await request.json()) as { messages: Message[] };
  const userMessages = messages.filter((i) => i.role === 'user');
  const query = userMessages[userMessages.length - 1].content;
  const index = await VectorStoreIndex.fromVectorStore(vectorStore);
  const retriever = index.asRetriever();
  const chatEngine = new ContextChatEngine({ retriever });
  const customReadable = new ReadableStream({
    async start(controller) {
      const stream = await chatEngine.chat({ message: query, chatHistory: messages, stream: true });
      for await (const chunk of stream) {
        controller.enqueue(encoder.encode(chunk.response));
      }
      controller.close();
    },
  });
  return new Response(customReadable, {
    headers: {
      Connection: 'keep-alive',
      'Content-Encoding': 'none',
      'Cache-Control': 'no-cache, no-transform',
      'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8',
    },
  });
}

Hackable, fully-featured, pre-built starter apps to get you up and running with LlamaIndex and Postgres.

• AI chatbot (OpenAI + LllamIndex): A Next.js AI chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
• RAG chatbot (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js RAG chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
• Semantic search chatbot (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js Semantic Search chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
• Reverse image search (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js Reverse Image Search Engine starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
• Chat with PDF (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js Chat with PDF chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex

• LangChain
• Semantic Kernel
• Inngest

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