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Illustration for comparing file-system search (glob, grep, read) with hybrid keyword and semantic search for agentic retrieval over large document sets.

Apr 7, 2026

Are File Systems All You Need? It Depends...

We evaluated hybrid search against file search (glob/grep/read) on ~160k–510k enterprise-style documents. Neither wins outright everywhere — question complexity and dataset scale, as well as user preferences, affect which retrieval pattern works better.

Joachim Rahmfeld
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Case Study: How Ramp uses Onyx to support their continued growth

Learn how Ramp uses Onyx as their internal knowledge platform to achieve 30x ROI.

Chris Weaver
Chris Weaver
Aug 20, 2025