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Building the future of OpenSearch together
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
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
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
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...
Introducing byte vector support for Faiss in the OpenSearch vector engine
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...
Introducing OpenSearch nightly playgrounds: Preview new OpenSearch features live
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...
Introducing enhanced search functionality on OpenSearch.org
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...
Streamline your OpenSearch development workflow on macOS with Apple silicon
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
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...