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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...

Reducing hybrid query latency in OpenSearch 3.1 with efficient score collection

Jun 27, 2025 • technical-posts, blog

Hybrid queries combine the precision of traditional lexical search with the semantic power of vector search. In OpenSearch 3.1, we delivered significant latency reductions for hybrid queries by redesigning how...

Announcing OpenSearch Data Prepper 2.12: Additional source and sinks for your data ingestion needs

Jun 26, 2025 • releases

Data Prepper 2.12.0 offers an improved OTel source and two new sinks for improved data ingestion as well as additional features and improvements.

Redline testing now available in OpenSearch Benchmark

Jun 23, 2025 • technical-posts

Redline testing now available in OpenSearch Benchmark

Neural sparse models are now available in Hugging Face Sentence Transformers

Jun 11, 2025 • technical-posts

OpenSearch’s neural sparse search transforms text into sparse token-weight pairs using transformer models, combining semantic search capabilities with efficient inverted indexing. This approach delivers high retrieval accuracy with low latency...

Unlocking agentic AI experiences with OpenSearch

Jun 09, 2025 • technical-posts

As search evolves from text-based inputs to conversational, interactive experiences, the power of agentic AI is unlocking new ways to connect with systems, applications, and large language models (LLMs). Recently,...

Enhanced log analysis with OpenSearch PPL: Introducing lookup, join, and subsearch

May 30, 2025 • technical-posts

OpenSearch 3.0 introduced powerful new capabilities to the Piped Processing Language (PPL) with the addition of the lookup, join, and subsearch commands. These commands help you enrich, correlate, and filter...

Optimizing inference processors for cost efficiency and performance

May 29, 2025 • technical-posts

Inference processors, such as text_embedding, text_image_embedding, and sparse_encoding, enable the generation of vector embeddings during document ingestion or updates. Today, these processors invoke model inference every time a document is...

Improve OpenSearch cluster performance by separating search and indexing workloads

May 27, 2025 • technical-posts

All OpenSearch indexes consist of shards, with each document in an index stored in a shard.

Introducing common filter support for hybrid search queries

May 23, 2025 • technical-posts

Hybrid search in OpenSearch enables you to combine different query types, such as lexical (keyword) and semantic (vector) queries, to produce one result set. This powerful capability is ideal for...

Do more with less: Save up to 3x on storage with derived vector source

May 20, 2025 • technical-posts

If you’re working with modern applications, from semantic search to recommendation systems, you’re likely implementing vector search. While you might focus on the accuracy and speed of vector similarity searches,...

Finding a replacement for JSM in OpenSearch 3.0

May 19, 2025 • technical-posts

OpenSearch 3.0.0 introduced many innovative features that provide significant advancements in performance, data management, vector database functionality, and more. In the release announcement, we shared that OpenSearch has replaced the...

Intelligent troubleshooting using OpenSearch 3.0's plan-execute-reflect agent

May 19, 2025 • technical-posts

OpenSearch 3.0 introduces the plan–execute–reflect agent—a powerful new capability that breaks down complex problems, selects and executes tools autonomously, and adapts through reflection. In this post, we’ll show you how...

Introducing MCP in OpenSearch

May 15, 2025 • technical-posts

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized communication framework that reduces the integration complexity between AI agents and external tools. Without MCP, you may face significant technical overhead because each...

OpenSearch Project update: Performance progress in OpenSearch 3.0

May 14, 2025 • technical-posts, community

Learn more about the strategic enhancements and performance features that OpenSearch has delivered up to version 3.0.

OpenSearch Benchmark: An update

May 12, 2025 • community

OpenSearch Benchmark is the performance benchmarking tool for OpenSearch.