Vector search is excellent at semantic similarity and bad at named entities. BM25 is the opposite. Production-grade retrieval is hybrid — and the architecture decisions matter.
Production-Grade RAG on the Lakehouse with Mosaic AI Vector Search
How to design, build, and evaluate a production RAG system on Databricks using Mosaic AI Vector Search, hybrid retrieval, and a real evaluation harness.
A Retrieval Engine over the World’s Aviation Safety Corpus
247,000 public-domain aviation safety reports — indexed with hybrid retrieval, re-ranking, and citation-grounded generation. Here is what we learned designing it for production.

