[Feature Request]: $contains for metadata or allow type list for metadata and have $in for lists as filter option

[pascalovrai]

Describe the problem

I would be awesome if you could use the $contains filter on metadata. Or if you could have a list as an allowed type for metadata, to then use a kind of $in operator.

Describe the proposed solution

So let's say I have a list of tags ("Bestseller", "Beginner-Friendly", "Budget-Friendly"). Now I have the metadata field "Tags" and there I would like to make the value of the field a list -> ["Bestseller", "Beginner-Friendly", "Budget-Friendly"]. Now if I want to look for all documents that are bestsellers, I would just have to do {"Tags": {"$in": "Bestseller"}}.

Alternatives considered

Or the same for $contains. Where you would not have to have a list as the metadata field type, but you could have a string.

Importance

i cannot use Chroma without it

Additional Information

I love Chroma DB and have been using it for around a year now and this feature would be soo life saving!!!

[Sicheng-Pan]

Hi! Currently Chroma does not support compound metadata value (such as a list). But for your use case it is possible to get around without using a list as value type. For example:

• Given a document tagged as BestSeller and Beginner-Friendly, you can store the following metadata: {"tag:BestSeller": True, "tag:Beginner-Friendly": True}
• When you want to query for all documents that is tagged "BestSeller", you can query the corresponding metadata key in the where clause: {"tag:BestSeller": True}