# Building a Retrieval Pipeline with Turso and Voyage AI

DevFeed: [Building a Retrieval Pipeline with Turso and Voyage AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-a-retrieval-pipeline-with-turso-and-voyage-ai-5905.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/building-a-retrieval-pipeline-with-turso-and-voyage-ai>)

Author: Jeff Olson

Published: 2026-07-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>)

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## AI overview

This article presents a retrieval-plus-memory architecture for AI agents using Turso as an embeddable SQLite-compatible database with native vector search and Voyage AI for embedding and reranking. It covers data modeling, retrieval, agent memory, performance, and cost considerations.

## Source excerpt

A retrieval-plus-memory loop for AI agents that collapses the usual multi-service RAG stack into one embeddable Turso database and the Voyage AI API.