
Vector Search with Kai
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Vector Search with Kai
In this notebook, we load a dataset into a collection, create a vector index and perform vector searches using Kai in a way that is compatible with MongoDB clients and applications
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1!pip install datasets --quiet
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1import os2import pprint3import time4import concurrent.futures5import datasets6from pymongo import MongoClient7from datasets import load_dataset8from bson import json_util
1. Initializing a pymongo client
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1current_database = %sql SELECT DATABASE() as CurrentDatabase2DB = current_database[0][0]3COLLECTION = 'wiki_embeddings'
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1# Using the environment variable that holds the kai endpoint2client = MongoClient(connection_url_kai)3collection = client[DB][COLLECTION]
2. Create a collection and load the dataset
It is recommended that you create a collection with the embedding field as a top level column for optimized utilization of storage. The name of the column should be the name of the field holding the embedding
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1client[DB].create_collection(COLLECTION,2 columns=[{ 'id': "emb", 'type': "VECTOR(768) NOT NULL" }],3);
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1# Using the "wikipedia-22-12-simple-embeddings" dataset from Hugging Face2dataset = load_dataset("Cohere/wikipedia-22-12-simple-embeddings", split="train")
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1DB_SIZE = 50000 #Currently loading 50k documents to the collection, can go to a max of 485,859 for this dataset2insert_data = []3insert_count = 04# Iterate through the dataset and prepare the documents for insertion5# The script below ingests 1000 records into the database at a time6for item in dataset:7 if insert_count >= DB_SIZE:8 break9 # Convert the dataset item to MongoDB document format10 doc_item = json_util.loads(json_util.dumps(item))11 insert_data.append(doc_item)12 13 # Insert in batches of 1000 documents14 if len(insert_data) == 1000:15 collection.insert_many(insert_data)16 insert_count += 100017 print(f"{insert_count} of {DB_SIZE} records ingested")18 insert_data = []19 20 21# Insert any remaining documents22if len(insert_data) > 0:23 collection.insert_many(insert_data)24 print("Data Ingested")
A sample document from the collection
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1sample_doc = collection.find_one()2pprint.pprint(sample_doc, compact=True)
3. Create a vector Index
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1client[DB].command({2 'createIndexes': COLLECTION,3 'indexes': [{4 'key': {'emb': 'vector'},5 'name': 'vector_index',6 'kaiSearchOptions': {"index_type":"AUTO", "metric_type": "EUCLIDEAN_DISTANCE", "dimensions": 768}7 }],8})
Selecting the query embedding from the sample_doc selected above
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1# input vector2query_vector = sample_doc['emb']
4. Perform a vector search
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1def execute_kai_search(query_vector):2 pipeline = [3 {4 '$vectorSearch': {5 "index": "vector_index",6 "path": "emb",7 "queryVector": query_vector,8 "numCandidates": 20,9 "limit": 3,10 }11 },12 {13 '$project': {14 '_id':1,15 'text': 1,16 }17 }18 ]19 results = collection.aggregate(pipeline)20 return list(results)
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1execute_kai_search(query_vector)
Running concurrent vector search queries
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1num_concurrent_queries = 2502start_time = time.time()3 4with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=num_concurrent_queries) as executor:5 futures = [executor.submit(execute_kai_search, query_vector) for _ in range(num_concurrent_queries)]6 concurrent.futures.wait(futures)7 8end_time = time.time()9print(f"Executed {num_concurrent_queries} concurrent queries.")10print(f"Total execution time: {end_time - start_time} seconds")11 12for f in futures:13 if f.exception() is not None:14 print(f.exception())15failed_count = sum(1 for f in futures if f.exception() is not None)16print(f"Failed queries: {failed_count}")
This shows the Kai can create vector indexes instantaneously and perform a large number of concurrent vector search queries surpassing MongoDB Atlas Vector Search capabilities

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Run Vector Search using MongoDB clients and power GenAI usecases for your MongoDB applications
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