LightRAG/logs/2025-01-21-lightrag-documentation-log.md
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docs: Enterprise Edition & Multi-tenancy attribution (#5)
* Remove outdated documentation files: Quick Start Guide, Apache AGE Analysis, and Scratchpad.

* Add multi-tenant testing strategy and ADR index documentation

- Introduced ADR 008 detailing the multi-tenant testing strategy for the ./starter environment, covering compatibility and multi-tenant modes, testing scenarios, and implementation details.
- Created a comprehensive ADR index (README.md) summarizing all architecture decision records related to the multi-tenant implementation, including purpose, key sections, and reading paths for different roles.

* feat(docs): Add comprehensive multi-tenancy guide and README for LightRAG Enterprise

- Introduced `0008-multi-tenancy.md` detailing multi-tenancy architecture, key concepts, roles, permissions, configuration, and API endpoints.
- Created `README.md` as the main documentation index, outlining features, quick start, system overview, and deployment options.
- Documented the LightRAG architecture, storage backends, LLM integrations, and query modes.
- Established a task log (`2025-01-21-lightrag-documentation-log.md`) summarizing documentation creation actions, decisions, and insights.
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Task Log: LightRAG Documentation Creation

Date: 2025-01-21 Mode: beastmode-chatmode Task: Create comprehensive SOTA documentation for LightRAG workspace


Actions

  • Explored entire LightRAG codebase structure (lightrag/, kg/, llm/, api/, models/, services/)
  • Read core modules: lightrag.py (3401 lines), base.py (944 lines), operate.py (4230 lines), prompt.py, constants.py
  • Analyzed all 20+ storage implementations in kg/ directory
  • Reviewed all 16 LLM provider integrations in llm/ directory
  • Examined Docker, docker-compose, and K8s deployment configurations
  • Created 9 comprehensive documentation files in docs/ directory

Documents Created

File Description Lines
README.md Main documentation index with navigation ~200
0001-quick-start.md Getting started guide ~250
0002-architecture-overview.md System architecture with ASCII diagrams ~500
0003-api-reference.md Complete REST API documentation ~600
0004-storage-backends.md All 15+ storage backend configurations ~700
0005-llm-integration.md 13+ LLM provider integrations ~600
0006-deployment-guide.md Docker, K8s, and local deployment ~500
0007-configuration-reference.md All environment variables and options ~550
0008-multi-tenancy.md Tenant isolation and RBAC guide ~450

Decisions

  • Used ASCII art diagrams instead of Mermaid for maximum compatibility across viewers
  • Organized documents numerically (0001-0008) for clear ordering
  • Included ERD-style diagrams showing entity relationships
  • Created dense, actionable tables for quick reference
  • Linked all documents together with cross-references

Key Components Documented

Storage Backends

  • KV: JsonKVStorage, RedisKVStorage, PGKVStorage, MongoKVStorage
  • Vector: NanoVectorDBStorage, PGVectorStorage, MilvusVectorDBStorage, QdrantStorage, FAISSStorage, RedisVectorStorage, MongoDBVectorStorage
  • Graph: NetworkXStorage, Neo4JStorage, PGGraphStorage, AGEStorage, MemgraphStorage, GremlinStorage

LLM Providers

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, HuggingFace, Jina, SiliconCloud, ZhiPu, NVIDIA, LoLLMs, LMDeploy

Query Modes

  • naive, local, global, hybrid, mix, bypass

Next Steps

  • Consider adding examples directory documentation
  • Add troubleshooting section to deployment guide
  • Create contribution guidelines
  • Add performance tuning guide

Lessons/Insights

  • LightRAG has a highly modular architecture with pluggable storage backends
  • Multi-tenancy is implemented via TenantRAGManager with LRU caching
  • The system supports 15+ storage backends and 13+ LLM providers
  • Configuration follows a layered approach: CLI > ENV > .env > defaults
  • The codebase is well-structured with clear separation of concerns

Total Documentation: ~4,350 lines across 9 files