📚 RAG & Retrieval

RAG fundamentals, vector databases, retrieval tuning and evaluation · 15 resources (15 checked)

Free Tutorial Intermediate

Pinecone Learn

Pinecone · RAG & Retrieval

A free learning hub from a vector database vendor, with high-quality articles on RAG, embeddings, and hybrid search.

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Free Tutorial Beginner

Pinecone RAG Introductory Article

Pinecone · RAG & Retrieval

An illustrated overview of RAG that clearly explains the motivation, pipeline, and common pitfalls of retrieval-augmented generation.

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Official Docs Intermediate

LangChain RAG Tutorial

LangChain · RAG & Retrieval

LangChain's official RAG tutorial, with complete runnable code from document splitting to retrieval-based Q&A.

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Open Source Project Beginner

Chroma Vector Database Documentation

Chroma · RAG & Retrieval

An open-source vector database known for its simplicity — a few lines of code to embed in your app, ideal for local and small projects.

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Open Source Project Intermediate

Qdrant Documentation

Qdrant · RAG & Retrieval

A high-performance vector database written in Rust, with filtering, quantization, and distributed deployment; thorough docs.

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Open Source Project Intermediate

pgvector Vector Search Extension

pgvector · RAG & Retrieval

A vector similarity extension for PostgreSQL that adds embeddings search to a standard database, with minimal ops overhead.

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Open Source Project Advanced

FAISS Similarity Search Library

Meta AI · RAG & Retrieval

An open-source vector search library from Meta that stays fast at billion scale — a standard tool in algorithm research.

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Open Source Project Intermediate

Sentence Transformers Official Site

UKPLab · RAG & Retrieval

The most popular sentence embeddings library, with hundreds of pretrained models and tasks like similarity computation and reranking.

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Tool & Platform Intermediate

MTEB Embedding Model Leaderboard

Hugging Face · RAG & Retrieval

A large-scale leaderboard for text embedding models, comparing performance across tasks and languages — a must-check when selecting a model.

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Open Source Project Advanced

Microsoft GraphRAG

Microsoft · RAG & Retrieval

Microsoft's open-source graph-based RAG approach that extracts a knowledge graph from documents and excels at questions requiring a global view.

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Paper Advanced

RAG Survey Paper

Gao 等 · RAG & Retrieval

A fairly comprehensive RAG survey covering the paradigms and evaluation methods of naive, advanced, and modular RAG.

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