| # Annoy | |
| > [Annoy](https://github.com/spotify/annoy) (`Approximate Nearest Neighbors Oh Yeah`) | |
| > is a C++ library with Python bindings to search for points in space that are | |
| > close to a given query point. It also creates large read-only file-based data | |
| > structures that are mapped into memory so that many processes may share the same data. | |
| ## Installation and Setup | |
| ```bash | |
| pip install annoy | |
| ``` | |
| ## Vectorstore | |
| See a [usage example](/docs/integrations/vectorstores/annoy). | |
| ```python | |
| from langchain_community.vectorstores import Annoy | |
| ``` | |