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Announcements

Announcing OpenSearch 3.0

May 6, 2025
The OpenSearch Project's first major version since 2022 propels OpenSearch forward with significant advancements in performance, data management, vector database functionality, and much more.
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A graphic illustration of a construction scene over a city background with 3.0 in the middle.
Announcements

Announcing OpenSearch 3.0

May 6, 2025
The OpenSearch Project's first major version since 2022 propels OpenSearch forward with significant advancements in performance, data management, vector database functionality, and much more.
Technical

The power of star-tree indexes: Supercharging OpenSearch aggregations

April 30, 2025
Learn how star-tree index improves the performance of aggregations in OpenSearch.
Technical

Introducing the z-score normalization technique for hybrid search

April 28, 2025
In search engines and machine learning, data normalization is essential for making fair and accurate comparisons between different features or scores. Hybrid queries use multiple normalization techniques to prepare final results. The two...
Announcements

OpenSearch version 3.0: New features, breaking changes from Apache Lucene 10, and what to expect

April 25, 2025
Three years after the launch of 2.0, OpenSearch has taken the launch of Apache Lucene 10 as a chance to develop a new major version. Why the new development? Well,...
Releases

Announcing OpenSearch Data Prepper 2.11: Supercharged OpenTelemetry and even more sources

April 24, 2025
Data Prepper 2.11.0 offers better OpenTelemetry support and new integrations with external sources.
Technical

Navigating pagination in hybrid queries with the pagination_depth parameter

April 23, 2025
In this blog post, we'll explore why pagination depth is necessary for hybrid queries, show you how to use this feature, and share benchmarking results.
Technical

What’s new in OpenSearch Query Insights: Advanced grouping, dashboards, and historical analysis

April 22, 2025
OpenSearch Query Insights gives you essential visibility into how search queries perform, helping you understand how queries run and how they use cluster resources. Since introducing Query Insights, we’ve aimed...
Technical

Building effective hybrid search in OpenSearch: Techniques and best practices

April 17, 2025
OpenSearch provides a wide range of capabilities to support modern search needs, including traditional keyword-based techniques like lexical search using BM25 and more advanced methods like semantic and hybrid search....
Technical

A practical guide to selecting HNSW hyperparameters

April 10, 2025
Vector search plays a crucial role in many machine learning (ML) and data science pipelines. In the context of large language models (LLMs), vector search powers retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a technique...
Technical

Boost OpenSearch vector search performance with Intel AVX-512

April 8, 2025
Introduced in OpenSearch 2.18, Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) is a set of new instructions that can accelerate vector workload performance. Vector search benchmarks using OpenSearch Benchmark showed...
Community

Generative AI: OpenSearch’s journey as an open-source search engine

March 26, 2025
The rise of generative AI has transformed search technology, evolving it from simple keyword-based retrieval to intelligent, multimodal search experiences powered by deep learning. In this keynote address at the Linux Foundation Member...
Technical

OpenSearch as a SIEM Solution

March 20, 2025
OpenSearch is a scalable open-source search and analytics platform that can serve as the core of a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system. OpenSearch can centralize logs from diverse...
Technical

GPU-accelerated vector search in OpenSearch: A new frontier

March 18, 2025
OpenSearch’s adoption as a vector database has grown significantly with the rise of generative AI applications. Vector search workloads are scaling from millions to billions of vectors, making traditional CPU-based indexing both...
Community Technical

Solution Provider Highlight – Enhancing anomaly detection in Amazon OpenSearch Service: A customer success story

March 7, 2025
As organizations increasingly rely on cloud services, monitoring and detecting anomalies in system behavior has become crucial for maintaining reliable operations. In this post, we’ll explore recent improvements to the...
Community

Tracking the evolution of OpenSearch performance

March 6, 2025
Trail of Bits, an independent research and consulting company, recently completed a detailed analysis of OpenSearch performance. Read the blog post and detailed analysis to learn about key performance metrics for the Big5 workload! OpenSearch is...
Technical

Efficient large-scale filtering with bitmap filtering in OpenSearch

February 25, 2025
OpenSearch is a powerful open-source search and analytics engine that enables you to efficiently search and filter large datasets. A common search pattern involves filtering documents based on whether a...
Technical

Reduce costs with disk-based vector search

February 19, 2025
Vector search has gained significant attention in the area of information retrieval thanks to advances in natural language embedding models. These models map domain-specific data into a vector space, where...
Community

From chaos to clarity: Revolutionizing OpenSearch clients and documentation using a unified API specification

February 13, 2025
In February 2024, we decided to revamp the OpenSearch API Specification repository by adopting the OpenAPI Specification. While this change offered significant benefits, we encountered some challenges during implementation. Most...
Technical

Introducing reciprocal rank fusion for hybrid search

February 12, 2025
OpenSearch 2.19 introduces reciprocal rank fusion (RRF), a new feature in the Neural Search plugin that enhances hybrid search. RRF merges ranked results from multiple query sources, such as neural...
Releases

Explore OpenSearch 2.19

February 11, 2025
The latest version of OpenSearch expands capabilities for search and observability use cases, boosts performance and ease of use, and introduces an array of advancements for machine learning (ML) and...
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