Aerospike Vector Client Python

Python client for Aerospike VectorDB

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8 or higher
• pip version 9.0.1 or higher
• Aerospike VectorDB and Aerospike clusters running.

Using the client from your application using pip

To resolve the client packages using pip, add the following to $HOME/.pip/pip.conf

[global]
extra-index-url=https://<jfrog-username>:<jfrog-access-token>@aerospike.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/pypi/ecosystem-python-dev-local/simple 

Install the aerospike_vector using pip

python3 -m pip install aerospike-vector

Or

You can add the package name aerospike-vector to your application's requirements.txt and install all dependencies using

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Building the client

Setup build Python Virtual Environment

This is the recommended mode for building the python client.

# Create virtual environment to isolate dependencies.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Install requirements

python3 -m pip install -vvv  -r requirements.txt

Generate gRPC client code

# Generate the gRPC client code
./proto/codegen.sh

Build the package

python3 -m pip install build
python3 -m build

Examples

See examples for working samples.