Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative. Supabase is built on top of PostgreSQL, which offers strong SQL querying capabilities and enables a simple interface with already-existing tools and frameworks.
PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. Supabase provides an open-source toolkit for developing AI applications using Postgres and pgvector. Use the Supabase client libraries to store, index, and query your vector embeddings at scale.
In the notebook, we’ll demo the SelfQueryRetriever wrapped around a Supabase vector store. Specifically, we will:
  1. Create a Supabase database
  2. Enable the pgvector extension
  3. Create a documents table and match_documents function that will be used by SupabaseVectorStore
  4. Load sample documents into the vector store (database table)
  5. Build and test a self-querying retriever

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Setup Supabase Database

  1. Head over to database.new to provision your Supabase database.
  2. In the studio, jump to the SQL editor and run the following script to enable pgvector and setup your database as a vector store: 
    -- Enable the pgvector extension to work with embedding vectors
create extension if not exists vector;

-- Create a table to store your documents
create table
  documents (
    id uuid primary key,
    content text, -- corresponds to Document.pageContent
    metadata jsonb, -- corresponds to Document.metadata
    embedding vector (1536) -- 1536 works for OpenAI embeddings, change if needed
  );

-- Create a function to search for documents
create function match_documents (
  query_embedding vector (1536),
  filter jsonb default '{}'
) returns table (
  id uuid,
  content text,
  metadata jsonb,
  similarity float
) language plpgsql as $$
#variable_conflict use_column
begin
  return query
  select
    id,
    content,
    metadata,
    1 - (documents.embedding <=> query_embedding) as similarity
  from documents
  where metadata @> filter
  order by documents.embedding <=> query_embedding;
end;
$$;

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Creating a Supabase vector store

Next we’ll want to create a Supabase vector store and seed it with some data. We’ve created a small demo set of documents that contain summaries of movies. Be sure to install the latest version of langchain with openai support: 
%pip install -qU  langchain langchain-openai tiktoken
The self-query retriever requires you to have lark installed: 
%pip install -qU  lark
We also need the supabase package: 
%pip install -qU  supabase
Since we are using SupabaseVectorStore and OpenAIEmbeddings, we have to load their API keys.
  • To find your SUPABASE_URL and SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY, head to your Supabase project’s API settings.
    • SUPABASE_URL corresponds to the Project URL
    • SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY corresponds to the service_role API key
  • To get your OPENAI_API_KEY, navigate to API keys on your OpenAI account and create a new secret key. 
import getpass
import os

if "SUPABASE_URL" not in os.environ:
    os.environ["SUPABASE_URL"] = getpass.getpass("Supabase URL:")
if "SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY" not in os.environ:
    os.environ["SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Supabase Service Key:")
if "OPENAI_API_KEY" not in os.environ:
    os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("OpenAI API Key:")
Optional: If you’re storing your Supabase and OpenAI API keys in a .env file, you can load them with dotenv. 
%pip install -qU  python-dotenv

from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
First we’ll create a Supabase client and instantiate a OpenAI embeddings class. 
import os

from langchain_community.vectorstores import SupabaseVectorStore
from langchain_core.documents import Document
from langchain_openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from supabase.client import Client, create_client

supabase_url = os.environ.get("SUPABASE_URL")
supabase_key = os.environ.get("SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY")
supabase: Client = create_client(supabase_url, supabase_key)

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
Next let’s create our documents. 
docs = [
    Document(
        page_content="A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose",
        metadata={"year": 1993, "rating": 7.7, "genre": "science fiction"},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Leo DiCaprio gets lost in a dream within a dream within a dream within a ...",
        metadata={"year": 2010, "director": "Christopher Nolan", "rating": 8.2},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="A psychologist / detective gets lost in a series of dreams within dreams within dreams and Inception reused the idea",
        metadata={"year": 2006, "director": "Satoshi Kon", "rating": 8.6},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="A bunch of normal-sized women are supremely wholesome and some men pine after them",
        metadata={"year": 2019, "director": "Greta Gerwig", "rating": 8.3},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Toys come alive and have a blast doing so",
        metadata={"year": 1995, "genre": "animated"},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone",
        metadata={
            "year": 1979,
            "director": "Andrei Tarkovsky",
            "genre": "science fiction",
            "rating": 9.9,
        },
    ),
]

vectorstore = SupabaseVectorStore.from_documents(
    docs,
    embeddings,
    client=supabase,
    table_name="documents",
    query_name="match_documents",
)

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Creating our self-querying retriever

Now we can instantiate our retriever. To do this we’ll need to provide some information upfront about the metadata fields that our documents support and a short description of the document contents. 
from langchain.chains.query_constructor.schema import AttributeInfo
from langchain.retrievers.self_query.base import SelfQueryRetriever
from langchain_openai import OpenAI

metadata_field_info = [
    AttributeInfo(
        name="genre",
        description="The genre of the movie",
        type="string or list[string]",
    ),
    AttributeInfo(
        name="year",
        description="The year the movie was released",
        type="integer",
    ),
    AttributeInfo(
        name="director",
        description="The name of the movie director",
        type="string",
    ),
    AttributeInfo(
        name="rating", description="A 1-10 rating for the movie", type="float"
    ),
]
document_content_description = "Brief summary of a movie"
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
retriever = SelfQueryRetriever.from_llm(
    llm, vectorstore, document_content_description, metadata_field_info, verbose=True
)

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Testing it out

And now we can try actually using our retriever! 
# This example only specifies a relevant query
retriever.invoke("What are some movies about dinosaurs")

query='dinosaur' filter=None limit=None

[Document(page_content='A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose', metadata={'year': 1993, 'genre': 'science fiction', 'rating': 7.7}),
 Document(page_content='Toys come alive and have a blast doing so', metadata={'year': 1995, 'genre': 'animated'}),
 Document(page_content='Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone', metadata={'year': 1979, 'genre': 'science fiction', 'rating': 9.9, 'director': 'Andrei Tarkovsky'}),
 Document(page_content='A psychologist / detective gets lost in a series of dreams within dreams within dreams and Inception reused the idea', metadata={'year': 2006, 'rating': 8.6, 'director': 'Satoshi Kon'})]

# This example only specifies a filter
retriever.invoke("I want to watch a movie rated higher than 8.5")

query=' ' filter=Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.GT: 'gt'>, attribute='rating', value=8.5) limit=None

[Document(page_content='Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone', metadata={'year': 1979, 'genre': 'science fiction', 'rating': 9.9, 'director': 'Andrei Tarkovsky'}),
 Document(page_content='A psychologist / detective gets lost in a series of dreams within dreams within dreams and Inception reused the idea', metadata={'year': 2006, 'rating': 8.6, 'director': 'Satoshi Kon'})]

# This example specifies a query and a filter
retriever.invoke("Has Greta Gerwig directed any movies about women?")

query='women' filter=Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.EQ: 'eq'>, attribute='director', value='Greta Gerwig') limit=None

[Document(page_content='A bunch of normal-sized women are supremely wholesome and some men pine after them', metadata={'year': 2019, 'rating': 8.3, 'director': 'Greta Gerwig'})]

# This example specifies a composite filter
retriever.invoke("What's a highly rated (above 8.5) science fiction film?")

query=' ' filter=Operation(operator=<Operator.AND: 'and'>, arguments=[Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.GTE: 'gte'>, attribute='rating', value=8.5), Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.EQ: 'eq'>, attribute='genre', value='science fiction')]) limit=None

[Document(page_content='Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone', metadata={'year': 1979, 'genre': 'science fiction', 'rating': 9.9, 'director': 'Andrei Tarkovsky'})]

# This example specifies a query and composite filter
retriever.invoke(
    "What's a movie after 1990 but before (or on) 2005 that's all about toys, and preferably is animated"
)

query='toys' filter=Operation(operator=<Operator.AND: 'and'>, arguments=[Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.GT: 'gt'>, attribute='year', value=1990), Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.LTE: 'lte'>, attribute='year', value=2005), Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.LIKE: 'like'>, attribute='genre', value='animated')]) limit=None

[Document(page_content='Toys come alive and have a blast doing so', metadata={'year': 1995, 'genre': 'animated'})]

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Filter k

We can also use the self query retriever to specify k: the number of documents to fetch. We can do this by passing enable_limit=True to the constructor. 
retriever = SelfQueryRetriever.from_llm(
    llm,
    vectorstore,
    document_content_description,
    metadata_field_info,
    enable_limit=True,
    verbose=True,
)

# This example only specifies a relevant query
retriever.invoke("what are two movies about dinosaurs")

query='dinosaur' filter=None limit=2

[Document(page_content='A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose', metadata={'year': 1993, 'genre': 'science fiction', 'rating': 7.7}),
 Document(page_content='Toys come alive and have a blast doing so', metadata={'year': 1995, 'genre': 'animated'})]