Google's AlloyDB AI now offers a unified hybrid search capability that combines vector search and full-text search in a single SQL function, ai.hybrid_search, using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) to eli…
Elastic principal data scientist Susan Chang described how the company consolidated per-team agent evaluations into a shared, tracing-based framework for its production AI agents, including the attack…
A developer has published a guide on building semantic search engines in Java using vector embeddings, walking through the architecture of an embedding model, a vector search engine, and similarity ra…
A developer at LogicLoop described a production hybrid-search RAG pipeline that runs BM25 keyword retrieval in Elasticsearch alongside dense vector retrieval in pgvector and fuses normalized scores, r…
LectuLibre, an AI-powered book translation platform, replaced slow SQL ILIKE queries with PostgreSQL full-text search to handle multilingual search across more than 10,000 books in 5 languages. The te…
A developer's technical breakdown argues that combining BM25 keyword search with dense vector retrieval via reciprocal rank fusion, then applying a cross-encoder re-ranker over the top candidates, del…
Qdrant released a public 24-terabyte dataset of 10 billion vectors that provides the first precisely computed ground truth for Internet-scale vector search, after spending massive GPU compute on more …
Elastic released jina-ocr-v1, a 3.4-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts document parsing model that activates only 570 million parameters at inference and is now available through the Elastic Inferen…
Yonik Seeley, the creator of Solr, released Luxir, an open source hybrid search engine written in modern C++ under the Apache License 2.0, offering full-text search, vector search, faceting, and analy…
A developer published a shell-script benchmark harness that compares Qdrant, Milvus and Elasticsearch on a FineWeb-10B slice, scoring all three engines against a single shared exact brute-force ground…
Approximate nearest-neighbor vector search has collapsed into existing databases — Postgres via pgvector 0.5.0 (August 2023), Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse 25.8, MongoDB Atlas (GA December 202…
Redis released Search on Flex for Redis Cloud Pro, letting Redis Search indexes reside on Flex tiered storage with only hot index metadata kept in RAM, cutting an index's memory footprint to roughly t…
Researchers developed LegMexIA, an AI-enabled research assistant for the Legislación Mexicana corpus, a 42-volume compilation of legal dispositions spanning more than two centuries. LegMexIA combines …
OpenSearch 3.6 and version 2.19 have shipped as the first two releases to carry official Long-Term Support status, a designation the project has lacked since the Elasticsearch fork in 2021. OpenSearch…
Elastic built an AI agent harness that automatically identifies and implements performance optimizations in the Elasticsearch codebase, with the company reporting it has already uncovered wins includi…
Elastic joined Australia's first Parliamentary AI Industry Showcase in Canberra as a Founding Partner, where the company argued that data quality, not model size, is the biggest constraint on AI perfo…
Aito published beta benchmarks claiming its predictive database matches or beats tuned ML baselines on high-cardinality tasks with zero training time, including 68.5% accuracy on invoice routing accep…
Pinecone, a fully managed vector database launched as a public beta in January 2021, is most commonly used today for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent memory, according to the company's p…
Reindexing is the process of rebuilding a search index from scratch when rules or content change, and it is critical for maintaining accurate search results, according to a guide from Bonsai, a manage…
Elastic NV announced the Elastic{ON} 2026 tour, with events in Mumbai, New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, Washington D.C., Singapore, and a digital finale from September 2025 through March 20…