Re:You Don't Need a Vector Database
by noemit on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:28AM
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True. RAG is worse in almost all real-world use cases. If you have less than 10,000 documents its worse and if you have too many documents its also worse.
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this is way too broad, RAG works fine in the 10k-1M doc range if your chunking and retrieval pipeline are tuned properly. the failure mode is usually bad embeddings or naive chunking, not RAG itself.