// rag · vespa-engine/vespa

vespa

vespa est un projet de RAG et connaissances open source, créé par vespa-engine (vespa-engine/vespa sur GitHub). Il compte 7 121 étoiles sur GitHub et 745 forks, il est publié sous la licence Apache-2.0 et a été mis à jour pour la dernière fois sur GitHub le 8 octobre 2026.

Vespa — the AI search platform: vector, text and tensor search at production scale.

★ 7,1 k étoiles⑂ 745 forksApache-2.0mis à jour oct. 2026
▦ visuel — le README de ce projet ne contient aucune capture intégrable,
voici donc un emplacement réservé. Le guide ci-dessous est complet malgré tout.
// détails du projet

Détails du projet

Étoiles GitHub
7 121
Forks
745
Licence
Apache-2.0
Dernière mise à jour sur GitHub
8 octobre 2026
Type de fiche
Guide d'installation complet
Site officiel
Official site
// fonctionnement

Comment ça marche

  1. Clarify your goal

    Decide cloud versus self-hosted, and design your first application package — document schema, indexing and a ranking profile — before writing data.

  2. Get the project

    Clone vespa-engine/vespa from GitHub (or use the install path in the run steps below) and skim its README for the parts relevant to your goal.

  3. Install and configure

    Start from the official getting-started guide: deploy an application package to Vespa Cloud or to your own Docker-based instance.

  4. Run your first task

    Deploy the sample application, feed a few documents, and run a query with a vector-plus-text ranking profile to see hybrid retrieval work.

// fonctionnalités

Pourquoi on l'adore

Hybrid search in one engine

Vector search, classic text search and structured filtering are evaluated together in a single query path.

Tensor-based ranking

Ranking uses tensor computation, so ML model inference happens inside the search engine at query time.

Built for big data

Designed for large corpora and high query loads with horizontal scaling and multinode redundancy.

Recommendation and serving

Serving and recommendation are first-class uses alongside search, sharing the same application model.

Cloud or self-hosted

Run applications on Vespa Cloud (with a free trial) or operate your own Vespa instance from the same open-source code.

Sample applications

A companion sample-apps collection provides fully functional, production-ready starting points.

Advertisement
// lancez-le

Lancez-le vous-même

  1. Clone the repository

    Get the source from the official GitHub repository for vespa.

    git clone https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa.git
    cd vespa
  2. Start with the getting started guide

    Create and deploy your first Vespa application package to Vespa Cloud or your own instance, following the official guide the README links.

    # Follow https://docs.vespa.ai/en/getting-started.html to deploy a sample app — see README
  3. Build from source (developers)

    For Vespa itself, set up the documented dev environment (including JDK 17) and build the Java modules.

    brew install jenv mvnvm openjdk@17  # macOS dev setup example from the README; see its Building section
// cas d'usage

Ce que vous pouvez créer

Advertisement
// faq

Questions fréquentes

Who maintains vespa?

vespa-engine (the Vespa team, originally from Yahoo), through the vespa-engine/vespa repository, with the service at vespa.ai.

Is vespa free to use?

Yes — the project is open source under the Apache-2.0 license as recorded for this listing. See the license terms for any conditions on redistribution.

Does vespa need a paid API key?

No API key is needed to self-host the Apache-2.0 engine. Vespa Cloud is a paid managed service (with a free trial) if you prefer not to operate it.

How does Vespa compare to a standalone vector database?

A vector database does nearest-neighbour lookup. Vespa is a full search platform — text, vector, structured data, tensor ranking and model serving in one distributed system — more powerful for production search, and correspondingly more system to learn and run.

How do I get started with vespa?

Clone the repository (or use the documented installer), follow the install and configure steps on this page, and run the smallest real task first — deploy the sample application, feed a few documents, and run a query with a vector-plus-text ranking profile to see hybrid retrieval work.

// continuez l'exploration

Outils similaires

RAG et connaissances

infinity

AI-native database for hybrid search across dense, sparse, and tensor vectors plus full text

★ 4,7 k étoilesApache-2.0
Voir le guide →
RAG et connaissances

seekdb

seekdb — the AI-native search database unifying vector, text and structured data for agents.

★ 3,1 k étoilesApache-2.0
Voir le guide →
RAG et connaissances

helix-db

An OLTP graph database with native vector and full-text search, built in Rust on object storage.

★ 6,1 k étoilesApache-2.0
Voir le guide →
RAG et connaissances

pgvector

Vector similarity search inside Postgres - store embeddings next to your data

★ 23,3 k étoilesNOASSERTION
Voir le guide →
RAG et connaissances

ragent

Ragent (容纳智能体): a production-grade Java Agentic RAG platform with hybrid retrieval and an admin console

★ 4,2 k étoilesApache-2.0
Voir le guide →
RAG et connaissances

trieve

All-in-one API platform for search, recommendations, RAG and analytics — self-hostable

★ 2,7 k étoilesMIT
Voir le guide →
// alternatives

Alternatives en RAG et connaissances

Les autres projets de la catégorie RAG et connaissances avec le plus d'étoiles du catalogue LibreAI — la sélection réaliste d'alternatives si vespa ne vous convient pas.

// plus en rag

Plus en RAG et connaissances

Projets de la catégorie RAG et connaissances proches dans le catalogue, les plus proches en étoiles de vespa — continuez à explorer de part et d'autre.

Obtenir vespa

Gratuit et ouvert : récupérez le code source, mettez une étoile au dépôt et commencez à créer.