Part 3: Types of RAG

Now that we understand what RAG is and how the ingestion and retrieval pipeline works, the next natural question is: Is there only one type of RAG? The answer is no. In real-world systems, RAG is not a single fixed architecture. It is a family of approaches , and each one is designed for different levels of accuracy, complexity, and performance requirements. Let’s go through the most important types of RAG used in production systems today. 1. Naive RAG (Basic RAG) This is the simplest form of RA