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Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust - quickwit-oss/tantivy

The world’s most downloaded vector database is used by customers to store and search billions of vector embeddings ...

Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 25 Years 

Part 2 of this series focuses on Elasticsearch, a distributed NoSQL database and search engine built on Apache Lucene.

Although it is not always known, the Java platform was used to implement various tools and components used in modern tech systems.

Update: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Gradle as a Platinum Targeted Sponsor

Introduction Link to heading Varint is a widely recognized technique used for compressing integer streams. Essentially, it suggests that it can be more efficient to encode a number using a variable-length representation instead of a fixed-size binary representation. By removing leading zeros from the binary number, the overall representation size can be reduced. This technique works particularly well for encoding smaller numbers. In this article, I provide a brief introduction and rationale for ...

The Elasticsearch Relevance Engine (ESRE) integrates AI and vector search to improve search relevance and support generative AI initiatives.

The Elasticsearch fork from AWS stands as proof that the company has committed to contributing to open source.

The new capabilities include a low-code interface, private preview of data products along with a data catalog, an environment that supports Python, and an indexing and caching solution called Warp Speed.