Skip to main contentü¶úÔ∏èüîó LangChainDocsUse casesIntegrationsAPICommunityChat our docsLangSmithJS/TS DocsSearchCTRLKGet startedIntroductionInstallationQuickstartLangChain Expression LanguageInterfaceHow toCookbookLangChain Expression Language (LCEL)Why use LCEL?ModulesModel I/‚ÄãORetrievalDocument loadersDocument transformersText embedding modelsVector storesRetrieversMultiQueryRetrieverContextual compressionEnsemble RetrieverMultiVector RetrieverParent Document RetrieverSelf-queryingTime-weighted vector store retrieverVector store-backed retrieverWebResearchRetrieverIndexingChainsMemoryAgentsCallbacksModulesSecurityGuidesMoreModulesRetrievalRetrieversOn this pageRetrieversinfoHead to Integrations for documentation on built-in retriever integrations with 3rd-party tools.A retriever is an interface that returns documents given an unstructured query. It is more general than a vector store.
A retriever does not need to be able to store documents, only to return (or retrieve) them. Vector stores can be used
Head to Integrations for documentation on built-in retriever integrations with 3rd-party tools.
Head to Integrations for documentation on built-in retriever integrations with 3rd-party tools. ->: Skip to main contentü¶úÔ∏èüîó LangChainDocsUse casesIntegrationsAPICommunityChat our docsLangSmithJS/TS DocsSearchCTRLKGet startedIntroductionInstallationQuickstartLangChain Expression LanguageInterfaceHow toCookbookLangChain Expression Language (LCEL)Why use LCEL?ModulesModel I/‚ÄãORetrievalDocument loadersDocument transformersText embedding modelsVector storesRetrieversMultiQueryRetrieverContextual compressionEnsemble RetrieverMultiVector RetrieverParent Document RetrieverSelf-queryingTime-weighted vector store retrieverVector store-backed retrieverWebResearchRetrieverIndexingChainsMemoryAgentsCallbacksModulesSecurityGuidesMoreModulesRetrievalRetrieversOn this pageRetrieversinfoHead to Integrations for documentation on built-in retriever integrations with 3rd-party tools.A retriever is an interface that returns documents given an unstructured query. It is more general than a vector store.
A retriever does not need to be able to store documents, only to return (or retrieve) them. Vector stores can be used