ch-image-search-demo

This repository contains an example React NextJS application that leverage Clickhouse vector Search capability to implement image similarity search.

Prerequisite

• Clickhouse server
• NodeJS LTS
• Python 3.10+

Architecture

This application has two parts:

1. Python embedding model
2. ReactJS frontend

Python embedding model

The Python application is used to generate embeddings for the images.

Setup

Install the dependencies:

cd py-embed
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the application:

uvicorn app:app --reload

ReactJS application

The ReactJS application is used to stream images from Clickhouse and also perform image similarity search.

Setup

Install the dependencies:

yarn install

Run the application:

yarn dev

Build the application:

yarn build