Graph RAG vs Vector RAG: A Practitioner's Guide to Choosing the Right Architecture

If you've been building LLM-powered applications for any amount of time, you've hit the retrieval problem. Your model is smart, but it doesn't know your data. You need to give it context and how you structure that context retrieval is one of the most consequential architectural decisions you'll make. Most teams reach for vector RAG by default. It's well-documented, there are great libraries for it, and it works for a wide range of use cases.