GraphRAG vs Vector RAG: When Knowledge Graphs Actually Win

1Key Takeaways

• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• What you need to know The honest answer to "GraphRAG or vector RAG?" is that they fail in different places, and the skill is knowing which failure your questions will hit.
• Vector retrieval is the workhorse of production retrieval-augmented generation: you split a corpus into chunks, embed each one, and at query time pull back the chunks whose embeddings sit nearest to your question.
• It is fast, cheap, easy to build and genuinely excellent at one thing —….