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How to build a production RAG pipeline in Python (without a vector database)

DEV.to AIΒ·May 22, 2026

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline in Python using BM25 retrieval and Meilisearch, without needing a vector database. It argues that this approach is simpler and more cost-effective for domain-specific corpora compared to traditional semantic search.

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