---
title: Bagel Vector Store
 | LlamaIndex OSS Documentation
---

If you’re opening this Notebook on colab, you will probably need to install LlamaIndex 🦙.

```
%pip install llama-index-vector-stores-bagel
%pip install llama-index
%pip install bagelML
```

```
import logging
import sys


logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.INFO)
logging.getLogger().addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout))
```

```
# set up OpenAI
import os
import getpass


os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("OpenAI API Key:")
import openai


openai.api_key = os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"]
```

```
import os


# Set environment variable
os.environ["BAGEL_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Bagel API Key:")
```

```
import bagel
from bagel import Settings
```

```
server_settings = Settings(
    bagel_api_impl="rest", bagel_server_host="api.bageldb.ai"
)


client = bagel.Client(server_settings)


collection = client.get_or_create_cluster(
    "testing_embeddings_3", embedding_model="custom", dimension=1536
)
```

```
from llama_index.core import VectorStoreIndex, StorageContext
from llama_index.vector_stores.bagel import BagelVectorStore
```

```
from llama_index.core.schema import TextNode


nodes = [
    TextNode(
        text=(
            "Michael Jordan is a retired professional basketball player,"
            " widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all"
            " time."
        ),
        metadata={
            "category": "Sports",
            "country": "United States",
        },
    ),
    TextNode(
        text=(
            "Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and"
            " humanitarian. She has received numerous awards for her acting"
            " and is known for her philanthropic work."
        ),
        metadata={
            "category": "Entertainment",
            "country": "United States",
        },
    ),
    TextNode(
        text=(
            "Elon Musk is a business magnate, industrial designer, and"
            " engineer. He is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX,"
            " Tesla, Inc., Neuralink, and The Boring Company."
        ),
        metadata={
            "category": "Business",
            "country": "United States",
        },
    ),
    TextNode(
        text=(
            "Rihanna is a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman. She"
            " has achieved significant success in the music industry and is"
            " known for her versatile musical style."
        ),
        metadata={
            "category": "Music",
            "country": "Barbados",
        },
    ),
    TextNode(
        text=(
            "Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who is"
            " considered one of the greatest football players of all time. He"
            " has won numerous awards and set multiple records during his"
            " career."
        ),
        metadata={
            "category": "Sports",
            "country": "Portugal",
        },
    ),
]
```

```
vector_store = BagelVectorStore(collection=collection)
storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults(vector_store=vector_store)
```

```
index = VectorStoreIndex(nodes, storage_context=storage_context)
```

```
from llama_index.core.retrievers import VectorIndexAutoRetriever
from llama_index.core.vector_stores import MetadataInfo, VectorStoreInfo




vector_store_info = VectorStoreInfo(
    content_info="brief biography of celebrities",
    metadata_info=[
        MetadataInfo(
            name="category",
            type="str",
            description=(
                "Category of the celebrity, one of [Sports, Entertainment,"
                " Business, Music]"
            ),
        ),
        MetadataInfo(
            name="country",
            type="str",
            description=(
                "Country of the celebrity, one of [United States, Barbados,"
                " Portugal]"
            ),
        ),
    ],
)
retriever = VectorIndexAutoRetriever(
    index, vector_store_info=vector_store_info
)
```

```
retriever.retrieve("celebrity")
```