WeaviateDocumentStore
Use the Weaviate database as your document store.
Basic Information
- Used with the following retrievers:
- Type:
haystack_integrations.document_stores.weaviate.document_store.WeaviateDocumentStore
Overview
For details, see WeaviateDocumentStore in Haystack documentation.
Authorization
If you're using a paid option, you need a Weaviate account and a url
and api_key
to use this document store. You can create a secret for it and then pass it its name in the api_key
parameter of the document store. To learn more about secrets, see Add Secrets to Connect to Third Party Providers.
Usage
For instructions on how to create a secret to connect to the document store, write documents, and then retrieve them, see Connect to external database.
Example Configuration
In an Indexing Pipeline
To write the preprocesses files into the document store:
- Add DocumentWriter to your pipeline.
- Add
WeaviateDocumentStore
and configure it on the component card. - Connect the components using their
document_store
connection point.
In a Query Pipeline
To retrieve files from the document store:
- Add a Weaviate retriever to your pipeline.
- Add
WeaviateDocumentStore
and configure it on the component card. - Connect the components using their
document_store
connection point.
Example
This how to connect the components:

When you switch to YAML, you can see that the document store is an argument of DocumentWriter
or Weaviate retriever:
DocumentWriter:
type: haystack.components.writers.document_writer.DocumentWriter
init_parameters:
policy: NONE
document_store:
type: haystack_integrations.document_stores.weaviate.document_store.WeaviateDocumentStore # document store confguration
init_parameters:
grpc_port: 50051
grpc_secure: false
Init Parameters
To check the parameters you can customize for this document store, see WeaviateDocumentStore API reference in Haystack documentation.
Updated 17 days ago