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How we survived a billion-edge knowledge graph on Neo4j Community for way too long and what…

Been testing different approaches to fix retrieval quality issues in a RAG pipeline over the past few weeks. Sharing what I ran into, since most of it doesn't match what tutorials suggest. Chunking strategy. Switched from fixed-token chunking to semantic/structure-aware chunking, expecting a clear improvement. It helped with long-form documents, but for structured content like tables and FAQs, it actually made retrieval worse — chunks became too large and diluted the embedding relevance. Reranki