Chroma

Chroma is a genuinely useful vector DB that avoids the worst sins: the API is actually minimal (4 functions, not 47), it handles embedding/indexing automatically so you don't reinvent that wheel, and people are using it in production. The slop score reflects the inevitable 'AI infrastructure' marketing speak and the Chroma Cloud upsell. It's not novel research — vector DBs exist, similarity search is solved — but it executes well on a real problem (RAG pipelines need fast retrieval without Ph...