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Lorenzo Dematte

Principal Software Engineer I

Author's articles

How we built Elasticsearch simdvec to make vector search one of the fastest in the world
Vector DatabaseInside Elastic

April 23, 2026

How we built Elasticsearch simdvec to make vector search one of the fastest in the world

How we built Elasticsearch simdvec, the hand-tuned SIMD kernel library behind every vector search query in Elasticsearch.

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By: Chris Hegarty, Lorenzo Dematte and Simon Cooper
Up to 12x Faster Vector Indexing in Elasticsearch with NVIDIA cuVS: GPU-acceleration Chapter 2
Vector Database

December 3, 2025

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.

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By: Chris Hegarty, Hemant Malik, Corey Nolet and 5 more

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