Stop Using Graph Database to Build Your Graph RAG System โ€” Vector Graph RAG Explained

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๐Ÿ”— GitHub: https://github.com/zilliztech/vector-graph-rag Vector Graph RAG is a lightweight framework that gives AI systems graph-style multi-hop reasoning through pure vector search, without requiring a graph database. Why vector-graph-rag: โœฆ No graph database โ€” pure vector search with Milvus, no Neo4j, no ArangoDB, no extra infra to manage โœฆ Single-pass reranking โ€” one LLM reranking call, no iterative agent loops, just 2 LLM calls total per query โœฆ Multi-hop reasoning โ€” expands subgraphs across documents to answer complex multi-hop questions โœฆ Zero configuration โ€” Milvus Lite runs as a local file, so you can just pip install and start โœฆ State-of-the-art performance โ€” 87.8% average Recall@5 on standard multi-hop QA benchmarks โœฆ Visual explorer โ€” interactive frontend shows step-by-step retrieval and how the system reasons โœจ If this project is helpful to you, weโ€™d really appreciate a star on GitHub.Weโ€™d also love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction of Vector Graph RAG 00:50 Two core advantages of Vector Graph RAG 01:40 Performance: Benchmark Metrics and Frontend Showcase 02:24 Live Demo: Vector Graph RAG in action 05:52 Wrap-up Find us on: Linkedin: / 67143129 X: https://x.com/milvusio GitHub: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus Fully Managed Milvus (Zilliz Cloud): https://cloud.zilliz.com/signup

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