Inconsistent Metadata Structure in Responses from Qdrant and Pinecone Stores

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When using Langchain with Qdrant and Pinecone as vector stores, I am observing a discrepancy in the structure of the metadata in the response objects. Specifically, the metadata fields related to loc are structured differently.

Expected Behavior:

I would expect the structure of the metadata, particularly the fields under loc, to be consistent regardless of whether Qdrant or Pinecone is used as the vector store.

Actual Behavior:

With Qdrant, the metadata structure is as follows:

"metadata": {
    "loc": {
        "lines": {
            "from": 1,
            "to": 10
        }
    },
    "source": "src/documents/My Life.txt"
}

With Pinecone, the metadata structure is:

"metadata": {
    "loc.lines.from": 1,
    "loc.lines.to": 10,
    "source": "src/documents/My Life.txt"
}

Relevant Code:

Here's the snippet of code used for setting up the Langchain with Qdrant and Pinecone:

const qdrantVectorStore = await QdrantVectorStore.fromExistingCollection(
    new OpenAIEmbeddings(),
    {
        client: qdrant,
    }
);

const pineconeStore = await PineconeStore.fromExistingIndex(
    new OpenAIEmbeddings(),
    { pineconeIndex }
);

const model = new ChatOpenAI({ modelName: modelName });

const retriever = vectorDB == "pinecone" ? pineconeStore.asRetriever() : qdrantVectorStore.asRetriever();

const chain = RetrievalQAChain.fromLLM(model, retriever, {
    returnSourceDocuments: true
});

return await chain.call({
    query: query,
});

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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The discrepancy you're observing is due to the different ways Qdrant and Pinecone handle metadata.

In LangChainJS, when using Qdrant as the vector store, each vector is associated with a document, which is stored as the payload for a point in the Qdrant database. The payload includes both the content of the document and its metadata. This is done in the addVectors method of the QdrantVectorStore class. Here's the relevant code:

async addVectors(vectors: number[][], documents: Document[]): Promise<void> {
  if (vectors.length === 0) {
    return;
  }

  await this.ensureCollection();

  const points = vectors.map((embedding, idx) => ({
    id: uuid(),
    vector: embedding,
    payload: {
      content: documents[idx].pageContent,
      metadata: documents[idx].metadata,
    },
  }));

  await this.client.upsert(this.collectionName, {
    wait: true,
    points,
  });
}

(Source: langchain/src/vectorstores/qdrant.ts)

On the other hand, when using Pinecone as the vector store, LangChainJS uses a structured query translator (in this case, the PineconeTranslator) to convert the queries into a filter format that the vector store can understand. The metadata is stored in the Document object, which is then passed to the PineconeStore. Here's the relevant code:

const docs = [
  new Document({
    pageContent:
      "A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose",
    metadata: { year: 1993, rating: 7.7, genre: "science fiction" },
  }),
  // ... more documents
];

const attributeInfo: AttributeInfo[] = [
  {
    name: "genre",
    description: "The genre of the movie",
    type: "string or array of strings",
  },
  // ... more attributes
];

const vectorStore = await PineconeStore.fromDocuments(docs, embeddings, {
  pineconeIndex: index,
});

const selfQueryRetriever = await SelfQueryRetriever.fromLLM({
  llm,
  vectorStore,
  documentContents,
  attributeInfo,
  structuredQueryTranslator: new PineconeTranslator(),
});

(Source: examples/src/retrievers/pinecone_self_query.ts)

The difference in the structure of the metadata is due to these different approaches. However, I understand that this can be confusing and it would be ideal to have a consistent structure. I will bring this up with the team to see if we can standardize the metadata structure across different vector stores in future releases of LangChainJS.

In the meantime, you might need to handle the different metadata structures in your application code depending on the vector store you're using. I hope this helps, and please let me know if you have any other questions.

Sources

• examples/src/agents/vectorstore.ts
• examples/src/retrievers/pinecone_self_query.ts
• langchain/src/vectorstores/qdrant.ts

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