Tired of not understanding if your search resources are idle?

Tired of not understanding if your search resources are idle? OpenSearch users frequently want to know how their workloads perform in various environments, on various host types, and in various cluster configurations. OpenSearch-benchmark, a community-driven, open-source fork of Rally, is the ideal tool for that purpose. OpenSearch Benchmark helps you to optimize OpenSearch resources usage […]

Natural Language Processing … for Image Search?

Natural Language Processing … for Image Search? Natural language processing (NLP) is a major part of search — so much so that it is even being used in image search applications. For example, Google said, when talking about its MUM model, “Eventually, you might be able to take a photo of your hiking boots and […]

How Neural Search is Being Used in Production

How Neural Search is Being Used in Production Neural search (also commonly referred to as semantic search) is hot — it seems like almost every day I see a new article written about it. For example, I recently saw these articles from Google, Home Depot, and Spotify. That’s why I shouldn’t be too surprised by […]

Semantic Vector Search — Taking the Leap from Keyword Search

Semantic Vector Search — Taking the Leap from Keyword Search Semantic vector search is a topic that’s getting a lot of attention, and many search developers are wondering if, and how, they should add it to their search solution. In a recent Haystack LIVE! Meetup titled Evolving from Keyword to Neural Search, Branden Chan of […]

Speeding up BERT Search in Elasticsearch

Speeding up BERT Search in Elasticsearch Neural Search in Elasticsearch: from vanilla to KNN to hardware acceleration In two previous blog posts on my journey with BERT: Neural Search with BERT and Solr and Fun with Apache Lucene and BERT I’ve taken you through the practice of what it takes to enable semantic search powered […]