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Version: 3.0

InMemoryDocumentStore

The InMemoryDocumentStore is a very simple document store with no extra services or dependencies.

It is great for experimenting with Haystack, however we do not recommend using it for production.

Initialization​

InMemoryDocumentStore requires no external setup. Simply use this code:

python
from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore

document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore()

Supported Retrievers​

InMemoryBM25Retriever: A keyword-based Retriever that fetches documents matching a query from a temporary in-memory database.

InMemoryEmbeddingRetriever: Compares the query and document embeddings and fetches the documents most relevant to the query.