January 8, 2026

Databricks' Instructed Retriever beats traditional RAG data retrieval by 70% — enterprise metadata was the missing link

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A core element of any data retrieval operation is the use of a component known as a retriever. Its job is to retrieve the relevant content for a given query. In the AI era, retrievers have been used as part of RAG pipelines. The approach is straightf...