rag-db-advisor

A RAG that answers RAG-stack questions — every claim backed by rag-retriever-bench measurements. Ask it which vector backend fits your workload, what a latency number actually means, or which operational trap you are about to step on. It only answers from measured evidence.

$ rag-db-advisor ask "10万件・日本語・更新頻度高めならどのDB？"

Why this exists

Vector-DB comparisons are usually opinions. This one is a closed loop:

1. Measure — rag-retriever-bench runs 9 backend configurations over the same corpus (MIRACL-ja), same embeddings, same queries, same metrics

2. Distill — results + the operational traps hit during measurement become the knowledge base (knowledge/)

3. Serve — this package retrieves that evidence for your question, over MCP or CLI

4. Dogfood — the retrieval layer imports rag-retriever-bench's own BaseRetriever abstraction. The bench data shows every HNSW backend is quality-tied at this corpus size (recall@10 0.979–0.983 @10k), so the store picks the operationally lightest option: Chroma embedded. The advisor follows its own advice.

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/kenimo49/rag-db-advisor
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...   # embeddings only (text-embedding-3-small)
rag-db-advisor ingest           # build the local store (54 chunks in v0.1, well under a minute)

Use from Claude Code / Claude Desktop (MCP)

claude mcp add rag-db-advisor -- rag-db-advisor mcp

Tools:

No generation key needed server-side — MCP returns evidence, your LLM writes the answer.

Use from the CLI

rag-db-advisor ask "ClickHouseのベクトル検索が遅い。何を疑う？"          # evidence only
rag-db-advisor ask "pgvectorとQdrantどっち？" --llm                      # + OpenAI synthesis

What it knows (v0.1)

• 9 backend configurations: pgvector, ClickHouse (HNSW ×2 granularities + brute force), Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma, LanceDB

• 2 corpus scales: 10k / 100k MIRACL-ja passages, 860 human-annotated queries

• Operational trap catalog: silent index degradation (3 distinct backends), shared-memory limits, load-visibility issues — each one reproduced, fixed, and written down

• Methodology caveats baked into answers: embedded vs server latency is not directly comparable; numbers are MIRACL-ja + text-embedding-3-small on a single node — measure your own data before deciding

Design notes

• The advisor never generates verdicts. It returns measured evidence and lets the calling LLM (or human) synthesize the answer — retrieval failures surface as explicit errors so nobody silently falls back to prior knowledge.

• Every chunk in the knowledge base traces back to either a bundled bench record (knowledge/results/*.jsonl) or a hand-written operational note (knowledge/ja/*.md). Notes only cover behavior that was reproduced during the underlying bench work — speculative advice is out of scope by policy.

• The retriever imports rag-retriever-bench's own BaseRetriever and picks Chroma because the bench data says every HNSW backend is quality-tied at this corpus size. The advisor follows its own advice.

Full write-up: docs/methodology.md. Extending the knowledge base: docs/adding-knowledge.md.

License

MIT