Vector DB vs Graph DB: The Architectural Trap That Breaks Production AI Systems

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Two Failing Scenarios, Two Root Causes Every senior AI engineer has been there. Your RAG pipeline works beautifully in s. Then a compliance officer leans over and asks a question, and your system returns three confidently-worded hallucinations. That question was not a semantic similarity problem. It was a graph traversal problem. And you built the wrong database for it.