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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...
Optimizing query performance: The implementation of the OpenSearch index request cache
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
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...
OpenSearchCon North America 2024: A treasure trove of opportunities
The third annual OpenSearchCon North America is just around the corner, and this year’s event promises to be an absolute must-attend for anyone looking to dive into search; analytics, observability,...
Using heuristic evaluation to inform the user experience strategy of a product
Analytics products such as OpenSearch rely heavily on visual interfaces such as dashboards to communicate the meaning of data to end users. These products offer powerful tools to construct visualizations,...
Exploring concurrent segment search performance
In October 2023, we introduced concurrent segment search in OpenSearch as an experimental feature. Searching segments concurrently improves search latency across a large variety of workloads. This feature was made...
Optimize storage and performance with the MatchOnlyText field in OpenSearch
The OpenSearch Project introduced a new field type called match_only_text in version 2.12. This field type is designed for full-text search scenarios where scoring and positional information of terms within...