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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...

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...

How sorting works in hybrid queries

Oct 17, 2024 • technical-posts

Since the introduction of hybrid queries in OpenSearch 2.10, they have become increasingly popular among users who want to improve the relevance of their semantic search results. Hybrid queries combine...

Announcing Data Prepper 2.10.0

Oct 15, 2024 • releases

Data Prepper 2.10.0 offers an OpenSearch _bulk API and reads from Amazon Kinesis.

Empowering Action Through Accessibility

Oct 11, 2024 • releases

Accessibility is no longer just a legal requirement — it’s a cornerstone of inclusivity and innovation. At Protegrity, we understand the importance of making our technology accessible to all users,...

Optimizing query performance: The implementation of the OpenSearch index request cache

Oct 08, 2024 • technical-posts, search

Speed and efficiency are essential for search users. OpenSearch achieves these through various mechanisms, one of the most important of which being the index request cache. This blog post describes...

Using search latency monitoring at the coordinator-node-level

Oct 01, 2024 • technical-posts, search

Responsiveness is core to any search solution, and communication delays between search requests and responses can present problems for your users. This is why many administrators monitor search latency: the...

An overview of rank normalization in hybrid search

Sep 19, 2024 • technical-post

Rank normalization is a crucial process in hybrid search systems, ensuring that scores from different search algorithms are adjusted to a common scale. This allows for fair and accurate comparisons,...