Summary

The integration of vectors and vector stores into RAG systems is foundational for enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of information retrieval and generation tasks. By carefully selecting and optimizing your vectorization approach, as well as your vector store, you can significantly improve the performance of your RAG system. Vectorization techniques and vector stores are only part of how vectors play a role in RAG systems; they also play a major role in our retrieval stage. In the next chapter, we will address the retrieval role vectors play, going in-depth on the subject of vector similarity search algorithms and services.