Vector Database

Scaling late interaction models in Elasticsearch - part 2

This article explores techniques for making late interaction vectors ready for large-scale production workloads, such as reducing disk space usage and improving computation efficiency.

 Scaling late interaction models in Elasticsearch - part 2
Exploring GPU-accelerated Vector Search in Elasticsearch with NVIDIA

Exploring GPU-accelerated Vector Search in Elasticsearch with NVIDIA

Powered by NVIDIA cuVS, the collaboration looks to provide developers with GPU-acceleration for vector search in Elasticsearch.

Searching complex documents with ColPali - part 1

Searching complex documents with ColPali - part 1

The article introduces the ColPali model, a late-interaction model that simplifies the process of searching complex documents with images and tables, and discusses its implementation in Elasticsearch.

Semantic Text: Simpler, better, leaner, stronger

March 13, 2025

Semantic Text: Simpler, better, leaner, stronger

Our latest semantic_text iteration brings a host of improvements. In addition to streamlining representation in _source, benefits include reduced verbosity, more efficient disk utilization, and better integration with other Elasticsearch features. You can now use highlighting to retrieve the chunks most relevant to your query. And perhaps best of all, it is now a generally available (GA) feature!

Unifying Elastic vector database and LLM functions for intelligent query

Unifying Elastic vector database and LLM functions for intelligent query

Leverage LLM functions for query parsing and Elasticsearch search templates to translate complex user requests into structured, schema-based searches for highly accurate results.

Semantic search, leveled up: now with native match, knn and sparse_vector support

Semantic search, leveled up: now with native match, knn and sparse_vector support

Semantic text search becomes even more powerful, with native support for match, knn and sparse_vector queries. This allows us to keep the simplicity of the semantic query while offering the flexibility of the Elasticsearch query DSL.

Filtered HNSW search, fast mode

February 27, 2025

Filtered HNSW search, fast mode

Explore the improvements we have made for HNSW vector search in Apache Lucene through our ACORN-1 algorithm implementation.

Understanding sparse vector embeddings with trained ML models

Understanding sparse vector embeddings with trained ML models

Learn about sparse vector embeddings, understand what they do/mean, and how to implement semantic search with them.

Elasticsearch hybrid search

February 17, 2025

Elasticsearch hybrid search

Learn about hybrid search, the types of hybrid search queries Elasticsearch supports, and how to craft them.

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