Chroma's latest release, version 0.4, represents a significant advancement for the platform, enhancing stability, ease of installation, and scalability while maintaining its user-friendly API. Originally designed to handle analytical workloads over embeddings using ClickHouse and DuckDB, Chroma faced challenges related to building dependencies and operational complexity, which were compounded by performance issues in a multithreaded environment. The updated version resolves these problems by eliminating previous system dependencies and adopting SQLite for unified document storage, simplifying deployment and resource management. This release introduces a robust testing suite to ensure confidence in modifications and positions Chroma toward a scalable distributed architecture, improving its utility as a general-purpose embeddings store for AI applications.