R2R
Production-ready RAG engine with a RESTful API
R2R (RAG to Riches) is a retrieval-augmented generation engine that bundles ingestion, hybrid search, knowledge graphs, and agentic reasoning behind a single API. It is designed for self-hosted production deployment of document question answering.
Key features
- Hybrid and graph search
- Document ingestion pipeline
- Agentic RAG endpoints
- User and collection management
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 8k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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