---
title: Deep Lake Vector Store Quickstart
 | Developer Documentation
---

Deep Lake can be installed using pip.

```
%pip install llama-index-vector-stores-deeplake
```

```
!pip install llama-index
!pip install deeplake
```

Next, let’s import the required modules and set the needed environmental variables:

```
import os
import textwrap


from llama_index.core import VectorStoreIndex, SimpleDirectoryReader, Document
from llama_index.vector_stores.deeplake import DeepLakeVectorStore


os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "sk-********************************"
os.environ["ACTIVELOOP_TOKEN"] = "********************************"
```

We are going to embed and store one of Paul Graham’s essays in a Deep Lake Vector Store stored locally. First, we download the data to a directory called `data/paul_graham`

```
import urllib.request


urllib.request.urlretrieve(
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/run-llama/llama_index/main/docs/examples/data/paul_graham/paul_graham_essay.txt",
    "data/paul_graham/paul_graham_essay.txt",
)
```

We can now create documents from the source data file.

```
# load documents
documents = SimpleDirectoryReader("./data/paul_graham/").load_data()
print(
    "Document ID:",
    documents[0].doc_id,
    "Document Hash:",
    documents[0].hash,
)
```

```
Document ID: a98b6686-e666-41a9-a0bc-b79f0d666bde Document Hash: beaa54b3e9cea641e91e6975d2207af4f4200f4b2d629725d688f272372ce5bb
```

Finally, let’s create the Deep Lake Vector Store and populate it with data. We use a default tensor configuration, which creates tensors with `text (str)`, `metadata(json)`, `id (str, auto-populated)`, `embedding (float32)`. [Learn more about tensor customizability here](https://docs.activeloop.ai/example-code/getting-started/vector-store/step-4-customizing-vector-stores).

```
from llama_index.core import StorageContext


dataset_path = "./dataset/paul_graham"


# Create an index over the documents
vector_store = DeepLakeVectorStore(dataset_path=dataset_path, overwrite=True)
storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults(vector_store=vector_store)
index = VectorStoreIndex.from_documents(
    documents, storage_context=storage_context
)
```

```
Uploading data to deeplake dataset.




100%|██████████| 22/22 [00:00<00:00, 684.80it/s]


Dataset(path='./dataset/paul_graham', tensors=['text', 'metadata', 'embedding', 'id'])


  tensor      htype      shape      dtype  compression
  -------    -------    -------    -------  -------
   text       text      (22, 1)      str     None
 metadata     json      (22, 1)      str     None
 embedding  embedding  (22, 1536)  float32   None
    id        text      (22, 1)      str     None
```

## Performing Vector Search

Deep Lake offers highly-flexible vector search and hybrid search options [discussed in detail in these tutorials](https://docs.activeloop.ai/example-code/tutorials/vector-store/vector-search-options). In this Quickstart, we show a simple example using default options.

```
query_engine = index.as_query_engine()
response = query_engine.query(
    "What did the author learn?",
)
```

```
print(textwrap.fill(str(response), 100))
```

```
  The author learned that working on things that are not prestigious can be a good thing, as it can
lead to discovering something real and avoiding the wrong track. The author also learned that
ignorance can be beneficial, as it can lead to discovering something new and unexpected. The author
also learned the importance of working hard, even at the parts of the job they don't like, in order
to set an example for others. The author also learned the value of unsolicited advice, as it can be
beneficial in unexpected ways, such as when Robert Morris suggested that the author should make sure
Y Combinator wasn't the last cool thing they did.
```

```
response = query_engine.query("What was a hard moment for the author?")
```

```
print(textwrap.fill(str(response), 100))
```

```
The author experienced a hard moment when one of his programs on the IBM 1401 computer did not
terminate. This was a social as well as a technical error, as the data center manager's expression
made clear.
```

```
query_engine = index.as_query_engine()
response = query_engine.query("What was a hard moment for the author?")
print(textwrap.fill(str(response), 100))
```

```
The author experienced a hard moment when one of his programs on the IBM 1401 computer did not
terminate. This was a social as well as a technical error, as the data center manager's expression
made clear.
```

## Deleting items from the database

To find the id of a document to delete, you can query the underlying deeplake dataset directly

```
import deeplake


ds = deeplake.load(dataset_path)


idx = ds.id[0].numpy().tolist()
idx
```

```
./dataset/paul_graham loaded successfully.














['42f8220e-673d-4c65-884d-5a48a1a15b03']
```

```
index.delete(idx[0])
```