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Building the future of OpenSearch together

Sep 16 2024 • community-updates

As announced today, the OpenSearch Project is now part of the newly formed OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative under the Linux Foundation. This marks a major milestone in the history of the OpenSearch Project, and we couldn't be more excited to share our thoughts on what this means to...

Deep dive: Enabling pluggable storage in the OpenSearch vector engine

Dec 18, 2024 • technical-posts, community

In 2019, OpenSearch introduced the Vector Engine, which supports three native engines: Non-Metric Space Library (NMSLIB), Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss), and Lucene. Unlike Lucene, which is Java based, Faiss...

OpenSearchCon 2024: North America – The blog post

Dec 09, 2024 • community-updates, community, updates, update, partners

OpenSearch, the community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite, has been gaining momentum in the data-driven application landscape. The recent OpenSearchCon North America 2024 event held in San Francisco, which attracted...

Give back and go forward: Driving community contributions from vendor led to vendor neutral

Nov 29, 2024 • community

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the OpenSearch Project, it sought to inspire a community of contributors to help drive innovation for a strategically important open-source project. Working toward that...

OpenSearch Project update: A look at performance progress through version 2.17

Nov 27, 2024 • technical-posts, community

Learn more about the strategic enhancements and performance features that OpenSearch has delivered up to version 2.17.

Introducing byte vector support for Faiss in the OpenSearch vector engine

Nov 26, 2024 • technical-posts

The growing popularity of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has led to an increased demand for efficient vector search and similarity operations. These models often rely on high-dimensional...

Optimize your OpenSearch costs using binary vectors

Nov 25, 2024 • technical-posts

Binary vectors offer a powerful, efficient alternative to FP32 vectors, reducing memory and storage by more than 90% without compromising performance. They provide a cost-effective way to scale large datasets...

Boosting k-NN exact search performance

Nov 19, 2024 • technical-posts

Exact k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search in OpenSearch allows you to define custom scoring functions to retrieve documents based on their proximity to a query vector. This method provides highly accurate...

Introducing OpenSearch nightly playgrounds: Preview new OpenSearch features live

Nov 07, 2024 • community

We’re excited to introduce nightly playgrounds—a dynamic environment where you can explore upcoming versions of OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards in a fully deployed distribution cluster. This live demo environment hosts...

Get started with OpenSearch 2.18

Nov 06, 2024 • releases

Our latest release brings a number of updates that help you build generative AI (GenAI) applications, improve performance for core search and related workloads, and advance the way your teams...

Step-by-step: Creating a new database integration using Data Prepper

Nov 05, 2024 • technical-post

Data Prepper, an open-source data collector, enables you to collect, filter, enrich, and aggregate trace and log data. With Data Prepper, you can prepare your data for downstream analysis and...

Gain deeper insights with OpenSearch Query Insights

Oct 31, 2024 • technical-posts

In the world of search and analytics, performance is everything. As an engineer, you need to ensure that your search queries are not only fast but also resource efficient. However,...

Introducing enhanced search functionality on OpenSearch.org

Oct 30, 2024 • community-updates, update, community

We’re pleased to announce an update to the search functionality on OpenSearch.org. This new design addresses key challenges in the current infrastructure and search experience while setting the stage for...

Tiered caching in OpenSearch

Oct 24, 2024 • technical-posts

For performance-intensive applications like OpenSearch, caching is an essential optimization. Caching stores data so that future requests can be served faster, improving query response times and application performance. OpenSearch uses...

Streamline your OpenSearch development workflow on macOS with Apple silicon

Oct 22, 2024 • releases, technical-posts

We're excited to announce that the OpenSearch core snapshot tarball artifact, built specifically for macOS ARM64 machines, is now publicly available. If you're developing on the latest Mac computers with...

Session spotlight: Keynote address at OpenSearchCon North America 2024

Oct 21, 2024 • community, speaker spotlights

The opening keynote for OpenSearchCon North America 2024 was given by Eli Fisher, Senior Manager of Project Management at AWS for OpenSearch, alongside two very special guests: Anupam Chaturvedi, Engineering...