Simplifying RAG Architectures: Practical Approaches for Efficient Retrieval Systems

The article outlines six RAG architectures, emphasizing simplicity and practicality over over-engineering, while providing decision factors for selecting appropriate retrieval methods based on data characteristics and use cases. It advocates starting with basic full-text search and progressing to hybrid or embedding-based approaches only when necessary, highlighting trade-offs between latency, cost, and effectiveness.

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