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---
id: 'ai-google-colab'
title: 'Google Colab'
description: 'Use Google Colab to manage your Supabase Vector store.'
subtitle: 'Use Google Colab to manage your Supabase Vector store.'
sidebar_label: 'Google Colab'
---
<a
className="w-64"
href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/supabase/supabase/blob/master/examples/ai/vector_hello_world.ipynb"
>
<img src="/docs/img/ai/colab-badge.svg" />
</a>
Google Colab is a hosted Jupyter Notebook service. It provides free access to computing resources, including GPUs and TPUs, and is well-suited to machine learning, data science, and education. We can use Colab to manage collections using [Supabase Vecs](/docs/guides/ai/vecs-python-client).
In this tutorial we'll connect to a database running on the Supabase [platform](/dashboard/). If you don't already have a database, you can create one here: [database.new](https://database.new).
## Create a new notebook
Start by visiting [colab.research.google.com](https://colab.research.google.com/). There you can create a new notebook.
![Google Colab new notebook](/docs/img/ai/google-colab/colab-new.png)
## Install Vecs
We'll use the Supabase Vector client, [Vecs](/docs/guides/ai/vecs-python-client), to manage our collections.
At the top of the notebook add the notebook paste the following code and hit the "execute" button (`ctrl+enter`):
```py
pip install vecs
```
![Install vecs](/docs/img/ai/google-colab/install-vecs.png)
## Connect to your database
On your project dashboard, click [Connect](/dashboard/project/_?showConnect=true). The connection string should look like `postgres://postgres.xxxx:password@xxxx.pooler.supabase.com:6543/postgres`
Create a new code block below the install block (`ctrl+m b`) and add the following code using the Postgres URI you copied above:
```py
import vecs
DB_CONNECTION = "postgres://postgres.xxxx:password@xxxx.pooler.supabase.com:6543/postgres"
# create vector store client
vx = vecs.create_client(DB_CONNECTION)
```
Execute the code block (`ctrl+enter`). If no errors were returned then your connection was successful.
## Create a collection
Now we're going to create a new collection and insert some documents.
Create a new code block below the install block (`ctrl+m b`). Add the following code to the code block and execute it (`ctrl+enter`):
```py
collection = vx.get_or_create_collection(name="colab_collection", dimension=3)
collection.upsert(
vectors=[
(
"vec0", # the vector's identifier
[0.1, 0.2, 0.3], # the vector. list or np.array
{"year": 1973} # associated metadata
),
(
"vec1",
[0.7, 0.8, 0.9],
{"year": 2012}
)
]
)
```
This will create a table inside your database within the `vecs` schema, called `colab_collection`. You can view the inserted items in the [Table Editor](/dashboard/project/_/editor/), by selecting the `vecs` schema from the schema dropdown.
![Colab documents](/docs/img/ai/google-colab/colab-documents.png)
## Query your documents
Now we can search for documents based on their similarity. Create a new code block and execute the following code:
```py
collection.query(
query_vector=[0.4,0.5,0.6], # required
limit=5, # number of records to return
filters={}, # metadata filters
measure="cosine_distance", # distance measure to use
include_value=False, # should distance measure values be returned?
include_metadata=False, # should record metadata be returned?
)
```
You will see that this returns two documents in an array `['vec1', 'vec0']`:
![Colab results](/docs/img/ai/google-colab/colab-results.png)
It also returns a warning:
```
Query does not have a covering index for cosine_distance.
```
You can lean more about creating indexes in the [Vecs documentation](https://supabase.github.io/vecs/api/#create-an-index).
## Resources
- Vecs API: [supabase.github.io/vecs/api](https://supabase.github.io/vecs/api)