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For documents at the million-document scale, a full re-embedding each time may mean hundreds of dollars in API call fees and hours of processing time.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
8/9/2026
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Valid until: 11/7/2026
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生产级RAG向量索引实时同步：策略选型与工程实践
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