FAISS

Category: NoSQL Status: base

Connects to a local FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) vector index file for storing and searching dense vector embeddings.

Connection Settings

Field	Default	Description
path	(empty)	Absolute path to the FAISS index file or directory

Authentication

No authentication. Access is controlled by filesystem permissions.

Supported Actions

• add_vectors — add new vectors to the index
• delete — remove vectors from the index

Required Setup

Requires the faiss-cpu or faiss-gpu Python package:

pip install faiss-cpu

External Links

• https://faiss.ai/
• https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss