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In practice, a combination of full text and vector databases often gives superior performance than just one of the types. It's called hybrid search. Here's an article that talks a bit about this: https://opster.com/guides/opensearch/opensearch-machine-lear...

Often you take the results from both vector search and lexical search and merge them through algorithms like Reciprocal Rank Fusion.




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