Indexing with LlamaIndex
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This chapter provides an in-depth look at the different types of indexes available in LlamaIndex. It explains how indexes work, and their key capabilities, customization options, underlying architectures, and use cases. Overall, this chapter serves as a guide for leveraging the indexing functionality within LlamaIndex to build performant and scalable RAG systems. Let’s get started!
Throughout this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:
- Indexing data – a bird’s-eye view
- Understanding the Vector Store Index
- Understanding embeddings
- Persisting and re-using Indexes
- Exploring other Index types in LlamaIndex
- Building Indexes on top of other Indexes with ComposableGraph
- Estimating the potential cost of building and querying Indexes
