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---
title: "InMemoryDocumentStore"
id: inmemorydocumentstore
slug: "/inmemorydocumentstore"
description: ""
---
# InMemoryDocumentStore
The `InMemoryDocumentStore` is a very simple document store with no extra services or dependencies.
It is great for experimenting with Haystack, however we do not recommend using it for production.
### Initialization
`InMemoryDocumentStore` requires no external setup. Simply use this code:
```python
from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore()
```
### Supported Retrievers
[`InMemoryBM25Retriever`](/docs/inmemorybm25retriever): A keyword-based Retriever that fetches documents matching a query from a temporary in-memory database.
[`InMemoryEmbeddingRetriever`](/docs/inmemoryembeddingretriever): Compares the query and document embeddings and fetches the documents most relevant to the query.