# GraphVectorStore

> **Class** in `langchain_community`

📖 [View in docs](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore)

A hybrid vector-and-graph graph store.

Document chunks support vector-similarity search as well as edges linking
chunks based on structural and semantic properties.

.. versionadded:: 0.3.1

## Signature

```python
GraphVectorStore()
```

## Extends

- `VectorStore`

## Methods

- [`add_nodes()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/add_nodes)
- [`aadd_nodes()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/aadd_nodes)
- [`add_texts()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/add_texts)
- [`aadd_texts()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/aadd_texts)
- [`add_documents()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/add_documents)
- [`aadd_documents()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/aadd_documents)
- [`traversal_search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/traversal_search)
- [`atraversal_search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/atraversal_search)
- [`mmr_traversal_search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/mmr_traversal_search)
- [`ammr_traversal_search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/ammr_traversal_search)
- [`similarity_search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/similarity_search)
- [`max_marginal_relevance_search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/max_marginal_relevance_search)
- [`asimilarity_search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/asimilarity_search)
- [`search()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/search)
- [`asearch()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/asearch)
- [`as_retriever()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/graph_vectorstores/base/GraphVectorStore/as_retriever)

## ⚠️ Deprecated

Deprecated since version 0.3.21. Will be removed in version 0.5.

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