Building RAG without Catalog

Aminsn
New Contributor III

All the tutorials I have seen about building a RAG within databricks involves using the Catalog option. For some reason my organization doesn't support that option and I can't use the unity catalog to build a RAG. Can I still use other features such as vector search and all the easy to use features that databricks provides without using the catalog? Can someone please refer me to a tutorial of building a RAG with databricks without using the catalog option?