Benchmark
We ran a small benchmark on a real-world insurance corpus:
• 4 policy documents
• ~1,900 hierarchical nodes
• 100 queries across 6 complexity tiers
Comparing ReasonDB to a typical RAG pipeline (LangChain / LlamaIndex defaults):
Metric ReasonDB Typical RAG
Pass rate 100% (12/12) 55–70%
Context recall 90% avg 60–75%
Median latency 6.1 s 15–45 s
The key difference is that ReasonDB performs BM25 candidate selection + LLM-guided traversal, rather than flat chunk similarity.
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Example reasoning case
One query asked:
“What conditions define recurrent disability?”
The answer was split across two sections:
• disability definition clause
• policy schedule clause
Flat chunk retrieval returned only the first section.
ReasonDB followed the cross-reference extracted during ingestion, which raised recall from 67% → 100%.
