Is running two databases worth it when a cheaper hybrid stack misses fuzzy search?
I'm weighing a single-engine retrieval setup for local RAG against keeping separate keyword and vector services. Exact function names and version strings matter alongside semantic matches. For vector databases like Milvus, BM25 and dense search can share a schema and use rank fusion in one request.…
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- 2026-10-27 10:01 · r/learnmachinelearning
Is running two databases worth it when a cheaper hybrid stack misses fuzzy search?