SoftwareRuntime
Chroma (open-source database)
Chroma (open-source database) is a runtime maintained by Chroma16. Its source code is public1 under the Apache License 2.02.
Chroma is an open-source database for AI applications that stores documents, embeddings, and metadata and supports vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. It can run in memory inside a program, persist to local disk, or run as a server, with client libraries for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Rust.157
- Repository: Repository (external site: github.com)
- Documentation: Documentation (external site: docs.trychroma.com)
- License: LICENSE (external site: github.com)
- Release notes: Releases (external site: github.com)
Last reviewedEntry updated Documented release
Availability and license
Component reuse rights
A readable or downloadable component is not automatically reusable. These indicators concern recorded license evidence, not system certification.
- weights
- Unknown — no complete fact-level rights review
- code
- Unknown — no complete fact-level rights review
- data
- Unknown — no complete fact-level rights review
- documentation
- Unknown — no complete fact-level rights review
No complete system-rights review is recorded for this release.
Public materials checklist
Items for a runtime under USASI rubric v0.2. Unknown means unassessed or insufficient evidence.
| Item | Status | Notes and evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Source codeIs the source code publicly readable? | Public | 1 |
| DocumentationIs user documentation published? | Public | 56 |
| InstallationAre installation instructions or packages publicly available? | Public | Documented installs with pip (chromadb), npm (chromadb), and cargo (chroma), plus the chromadb/chroma Docker image and a chroma run command for a local server.5 |
| Supported platformsAre supported operating systems or hardware documented? | Unknown | Not assessed. |
| Release statusAre versioned releases published? | Public | Versioned releases are published on GitHub and PyPI; the latest chromadb release on PyPI at review was 1.5.9, uploaded on May 5, 2026.34 |
What it is useful for
Run and use notes
Documented facts only. No hardware or performance claims are made without a cited source and stated assumptions.
- Chroma's documentation says the single-node (local) version may temporarily lack features available in distributed Chroma and Chroma Cloud, and that Chroma stopped collecting product telemetry as of version 1.5.4.6
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- Supported platforms: unknown.
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USASI. (2026, September 29). Chroma (open-source database). United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/chroma-db/
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@misc{usasi_chroma_db,
author = {{USASI}},
title = {Chroma (open-source database)},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/chroma-db/}},
note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
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