Build vs Buy Analysis

System Count: 24 Total

BUY - Alibaba Cloud Services (10)

  • LLM: Qwen via Model Studio / DashScope
  • Embedding: gte-Qwen2 via DashScope
  • Reranker: gte-rerank via DashScope
  • Vector DB: AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL
  • Storage: Alibaba Cloud OSS
  • Metadata: ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL
  • Graph: Alibaba Cloud GDB
  • Search: Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch
  • ETL: DataWorks
  • Queue: Message Queue for Apache Kafka

BUILD - Custom Development (9)

  • RAG API Service (FastAPI on ACK/ECS)
  • Knowledge Portal (React/Next.js)
  • Admin Dashboard, Query Orchestrator
  • Ingestion Pipeline, RBAC Service
  • Chatbot SDK, SharePoint/Email Connectors