Redis®*: Creating a vector index

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To declare a vector field, specify its dimension and distance metric. The dimension should match your embedding model: for example, 1536 for OpenAI text-embedding-3-small, 768 for many open-source models, and so on.

FT.CREATE chunksIndex
  ON HASH
  PREFIX 1 chunk:
  SCHEMA
    content TEXT
    documentId TAG
    publishedAt NUMERIC
    embedding VECTOR HNSW 6
      TYPE FLOAT32
      DIM 1536
      DISTANCE_METRIC COSINE

HNSW creates a graph index that keeps queries fast as your collection grows, making it a good choice above a few thousand vectors. For small collections where exact results matter, you can use FLAT for brute-force search.

COSINE is the recommended metric for most text embedding models. You can also choose L2 or IP if your use case requires it.