How to install the Weaviate vector database on Debian 12

I've researched a variety of vector databases. Like Pinecone, Redis, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector. After comparing them, I chose Weaviate as my vector database.

How to install Weaviate on Debian 12

First, Download Weaviate

Go to github.com/weaviate/weaviate, then find the version that is suitable for your operating system.
I chose to download weaviate-v1.20.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz

mkdir vectordb
cd vectordb
wget https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/releases/download/v1.20.3/weaviate-v1.20.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Then install Weaviate

First unzip the file, then add the configuration file.

tar -zxvf weaviate-v1.20.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz

You need to configure the authentication and data persistence environment as below. We use API authentication for test.

export AUTHENTICATION_APIKEY_ENABLED=true
export AUTHENTICATION_APIKEY_ALLOWED_KEYS=q8Z5HN4U2w8jUDRGeGxyKkqvwjPg7w4P
export AUTHENTICATION_APIKEY_USERS=[e-mail]
export PERSISTENCE_DATA_PATH=/home/newbing/vectordb/data

Launch Weaviate

After unzip file and set the environment, you can launch a instance of weaviate.

./weaviate --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8181 --scheme=http

Launch with supervisor

If you don't want to start or stop by hand, you can use Supervisor to manage the Weaviate instance.
The supervisor config file:

[program:weaviate]
directory=/home/newbing/vectordb/
command=/home/newbing/vectordb/weaviate --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8181 --scheme=http
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=www
environment=HOME="/home/www",AUTHENTICATION_APIKEY_ENABLED="true",AUTHENTICATION_APIKEY_ALLOWED_KEYS="q8Z5HN4U2w7jUDRGeGxyKkqvwjPg7w4P",AUTHENTICATION_APIKEY_USERS="[e-mail]",PERSISTENCE_DATA_PATH="/home/newbing/vectordb/data"
numprocs=1
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/weaviate.log

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