Intelligent RAG data chunking: Fetch surrounding chunks
Learn about data chunking in RAG and explore fetch surrounding chunking, a pattern in RAG that uses chunking and Elasticsearch to refine LLM responses.
Scoring documents based on the closest ones with multiple kNN fields
Learn how to search through documents with multiple kNN fields, and score the resultant documents based on multiple kNN vector fields.
Semantic reranking in Elasticsearch with retrievers
Explore strategies for using semantic reranking to boost the relevance of top search results, including semantic reranking with retrievers.
Introducing Retrievers - Search All the Things!
Learn about Elasticsearch retrievers, including Standard, kNN, text_expansion, and RRF. Discover how to use retrievers with examples.
How to choose the best k and num_candidates for kNN search
Learn strategies for selecting the optimal values for `k` and `num_candidates` parameters in kNN search, illustrated with practical examples.
Using Elasticsearch as a vector database for Azure OpenAI On Your Data
Learn how to set up and ingest data into Elasticsearch for use as a vector database with Azure OpenAI On Your Data, allowing you to chat with your private data.
Elasticsearch open inference API adds support for Azure OpenAI embeddings
Elasticsearch open inference API adds support for Azure OpenAI embeddings to be stored in the world's most downloaded vector database.
Elasticsearch open inference API adds Azure AI Studio support
Elasticsearch open inference API now supports Azure AI Studio. Learn how to use Azure AI Studio capabilities with Elasticsearch in this blog.
Elasticsearch delivers performance increase for users running the Elastic Search AI Platform on Arm-based architectures
Benchmarking in preview provides Elasticsearch up to 37% better performance on Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs.
Elastic Cloud adds Elasticsearch Vector Database optimized profile to Microsoft Azure
Elasticsearch added a new vector search optimized profile to Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Get started and learn how to use it here.
How to choose between exact and approximate kNN search in Elasticsearch
Learn more about exact and approximate kNN search in Elasticsearch, and when to use each one.
Search relevance tuning: Balancing keyword and semantic search
This blog offers practical strategies for tuning search relevance that can be complementary to semantic search.