A practical RAG database design guide covering SQL, BM25, vector search, reranking, security, cost, and locality-aware context retrieval.
Retrieval-augmented generation is often introduced with a compact diagram:
documents -> embeddings -> vector database -> LLM
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That is a useful starting point, but it can make one part of the architecture
RAG retrieval strategies without a vector database: BM25, keyword indices, knowledge-in-bundle — and when embeddings earn their…
An architecture-focused comparison of Graph RAG and vector RAG: chunking, storage, retrieval behavior, trade-offs, and hybrid…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is often described as a simple pipeline: Query → Retrieve...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful pattern to build applications that can query,...
RAG is a technique that combines a large language model (LLM) with a vector store of embedded text...
The first two parts of this series covered why production RAG systems fail and how the quality of the...
