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Apache Airflow

A workflow orchestration platform used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor multi-stage RAG data ingestion pipelines, ensuring tasks like document parsing, chunking, and embedding generation are executed in a reliable, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure.

Definition

A workflow orchestration platform used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor multi-stage RAG data ingestion pipelines, ensuring tasks like document parsing, chunking, and embedding generation are executed in a reliable, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure.

Disambiguation

It orchestrates the background data preparation and indexing processes, rather than handling real-time user query execution.

Visual Metaphor

"An automated assembly line supervisor that ensures the raw materials (documents) are processed and loaded into the warehouse (Vector Database) in the correct order."

Key Tools
PythonKubernetesPodOperatorAstronomerAmazon MWAAGoogle Cloud Composer
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Conceptual Overview

A workflow orchestration platform used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor multi-stage RAG data ingestion pipelines, ensuring tasks like document parsing, chunking, and embedding generation are executed in a reliable, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure.

Disambiguation

It orchestrates the background data preparation and indexing processes, rather than handling real-time user query execution.

Visual Analog

An automated assembly line supervisor that ensures the raw materials (documents) are processed and loaded into the warehouse (Vector Database) in the correct order.

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