GraphRAG Frameworks in Production: Comparing Microsoft GraphRAG, LightRAG, Fast-GraphRAG, and Neo4j Hybrid Architectures
Standard dense vector retrieval fails on two specific query topologies: global corpus sense-making and multi-hop associative entity traversal. Standard vector search relies on flat chunk embeddings (cosine similarity over top-k chunks), which isolates information into disconnected fragments. If a query requires connecting entity A to entity C through intermediate entity B across documents, or synthesizing thematic patterns across an entire million-token repository, vector databases return disjoi


