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Apache Lucene 2025 wrap-up

2025 was a stellar year for Apache Lucene; here are our highlights.

Benjamin Trent

Comparing dense vector search performance with the Profile API in Elasticsearch

Learn how to use the Profile API in Elasticsearch to compare dense vector configurations and tune kNN performance with visual data from Kibana.

Alexander Dávila

Up to 12x Faster Vector Indexing in Elasticsearch with NVIDIA cuVS: GPU-acceleration Chapter 2

Discover how Elasticsearch achieves nearly 12x higher indexing throughput with GPU-accelerated vector indexing and NVIDIA cuVS.

Chris Hegarty

Multimodal search for mountain peaks with Elasticsearch and SigLIP-2

Learn how to implement text-to-image and image-to-image multimodal search using SigLIP-2 embeddings and Elasticsearch kNN vector search. Project focus: finding Mount Ama Dablam peak photos from an Everest trek.

Navneet Kumar

Improving multilingual embedding model relevancy with hybrid search reranking

Learn how to improve the relevancy of E5 multilingual embedding model search results using Cohere's reranker and hybrid search in Elasticsearch.

Quynh Nguyen

Low-memory benchmarking in DiskBBQ and HNSW BBQ

Benchmarking Elasticsearch latency, indexing speed, and memory usage for DiskBBQ and HNSW BBQ in low-memory environments.

John Wagster

Introducing a new vector storage format: DiskBBQ

Introducing DiskBBQ, an alternative to HNSW, and exploring when and why to use it.

Benjamin Trent

Deploying a multilingual embedding model in Elasticsearch

Learn how to deploy an e5 multilingual embedding model for vector search and cross-lingual retrieval in Elasticsearch.

Quynh Nguyen

Using TwelveLabs’ Marengo video embedding model with Amazon Bedrock and Elasticsearch

Creating a small app to search video embeddings from TwelveLabs' Marengo model.

Dave Erickson

Balancing the scales: Making reciprocal rank fusion (RRF) smarter with weights

Exploring weighted reciprocal rank fusion​ (RRF) in Elasticsearch and how it works through practical examples.

Mridula Sivanandan

MCP for intelligent search

Building an intelligent search system by integrating Elastic's intelligent query layer with MCP to enhance the generative efficacy of LLMs.

Sunile Manjee

Vector search filtering: Keep it relevant

Performing vector search to find the most similar results to a query is not enough. Filtering is often needed to narrow down search results. This article explains how filtering works for vector search in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene.

Carlos Delgado

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