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RAG Techniques

This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Each technique has a detailed notebook tutorial.

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#1

Generative AI For Beginners

Similarity 149Trust 88Excellent 100

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

112K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
#2

WeKnora

Similarity 141Trust 87Excellent 98

Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning agent, and a self-maintaining Wiki.

16K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoSemantic Search
$ npx skills add Tencent/WeKnora
#3

Txtai

Similarity 133Trust 90Excellent 100

πŸ’‘ All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

13K starsJun 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
#4

Meilisearch

Similarity 126Trust 84Excellent 100

A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

59K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch
#5

DocsGPT

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

Private AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents.

18K starsJul 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add arc53/DocsGPT
#6

Memvid

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 100

Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.

16K starsMay 27, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add memvid/memvid
#7

Cocoindex

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add cocoindex-io/cocoindex
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Typesense

Similarity 119Trust 90Excellent 100

Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚑ πŸ” ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences

26K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Semantic Search
$ npx skills add typesense/typesense
#9

Deeplake

Similarity 118Trust 86Excellent 99

Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.

9.2K starsMay 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add activeloopai/deeplake
#10

Weaviate

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database​.

17K starsJul 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoSemantic Search
$ npx skills add weaviate/weaviate
#11

Lancedb

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLSemantic Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb
#12

Cognee

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Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

30K starsAug 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
#13

LightRAG

Similarity 113Trust 88Excellent 100

[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#14

PageIndex

Similarity 112Trust 86Excellent 100

πŸ“‘ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#15

Seatunnel

Similarity 111Trust 89Excellent 99

SeaTunnel is a multimodal, high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool.

9.4K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaEmbeddings
$ npx skills add apache/seatunnel
#16

Databend

Similarity 109Trust 84Excellent 94

Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. β€” rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

9.4K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend

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