QuackIR: Retrieval in DuckDB and Other Relational Database Management Systems — Ge et al. (2025)

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Enterprises today are increasingly compelled to adopt dedicated vector databases for retrieval- augmented generation (RAG) in applications based on large language models (LLMs). As a potential alternative for these vector databases, we propose that organizations leverage exist- ing relational databases for retrieval, which many have already deployed in their enterprise data lakes, thus minimizing additional complex- ity in their software stacks. To demonstrate the simplicity and feasibility of this approach, we present QuackIR, an information retrieval (IR) toolkit built on relational…