Application
Retrieval & Memory
Trieve
1All-in-one 2retrieval 3and 4search 5API 6infrastructure
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by Devflow (devflowinc).
W2
What
Combines semantic and keyword search behind one retrieval API.
W3
Where
Self-hosted or Trieve Cloud, via REST and SDKs.
W4
When
When building search or RAG that blends vectors and keywords.
W5
Why
Handles chunking, embeddings, and reranking in one service.
W6
With
An embedding provider and a datastore.
W7
Watch
Company-maintained; open-source and self-hostable, with a hosted cloud (open-core). Self-hosting keeps your corpus local; it calls your configured embedding provider.