Vector Databases: Choose the Failure Mode, Not the Benchmark
You are choosing a vector database, so you open the comparison charts. Most of them have one, and it tends to show the publisher…
You are choosing a vector database, so you open the comparison charts. Most of them have one, and it tends to show the publisher…
Your agent makes a mistake on Monday. You patch the prompt. It works on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a slightly different input triggers the same…
You added a reranker because retrieval quality was not good enough. The relevant passage kept landing at rank eight when it should have been…
You have tuned everything. A better embedding model, a reranker, hybrid search. Retrieval quality is still not what it should be, and you cannot…
You upgrade your embedding model. The new one benchmarks better, so you point your pipeline at it, ship it, and within a day retrieval…