# Hologres

>[Hologres](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/hologres/latest/introduction) is a unified real-time data warehousing service developed by Alibaba Cloud. You can use Hologres to write, update, process, and analyze large amounts of data in real time. 
>`Hologres` supports standard `SQL` syntax, is compatible with `PostgreSQL`, and supports most PostgreSQL functions. Hologres supports online analytical processing (OLAP) and ad hoc analysis for up to petabytes of data, and provides high-concurrency and low-latency online data services. 

>`Hologres` provides **vector database** functionality by adopting [Proxima](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/hologres/latest/vector-processing).
>`Proxima` is a high-performance software library developed by `Alibaba DAMO Academy`. It allows you to search for the nearest neighbors of vectors. Proxima provides higher stability and performance than similar open-source software such as Faiss. Proxima allows you to search for similar text or image embeddings with high throughput and low latency. Hologres is deeply integrated with Proxima to provide a high-performance vector search service.

## Installation and Setup

Click [here](https://www.alibabacloud.com/zh/product/hologres) to fast deploy a Hologres cloud instance.

```bash
pip install psycopg2
```

## Vector Store

See a [usage example](/docs/integrations/vectorstores/hologres).

```python
from langchain.vectorstores import Hologres
```
