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Playground: Experiment with RAG applications with Elasticsearch in minutes

Learn about Elastic's Playground and how to use it to experiment with RAG applications using Elasticsearch.

Joe McElroy

Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch: Vector Search Performance Comparison

Elasticsearch is out-of-the-box 2x–12x faster than OpenSearch for vector search

Ugo Sangiorgi

Elasticsearch new semantic_text mapping: Simplifying semantic search

Learn how to use the new semantic_text field type and semantic query for simplifying semantic search in Elasticsearch.

Carlos Delgado

Elasticsearch data ingestion - What's the best data ingestion tool for the job?

Discover the different ways you can ingest data in Elasticsearch. Explore data ingestion tools like Logstash, Client APIs and Elastic Native Connectors + the Elastic Connector Framework.

Josh Asres

Building RAG with Llama 3 open-source and Elastic

Learn how to build a RAG system with Llama3 open source and Elastic. This blog provides practical examples of RAG using Llama3 as an LLM.

Enhancing recommendations with geo-semantic search in Elasticsearch

Explore Elasticsearch's hybrid geo-semantic search capabilities and learn how to integrate geographical & semantic search to enhance recommendations.

Lily Adler

RAG pipelines in production: Operationalize your GenAI project

In this blog, we discuss the necessary considerations for running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines in production.

Tim Brophy

Simplifying data lifecycle management for data streams

Elasticsearch data streams can now be managed by a data stream property called lifecycle. Learn to set up and update a data stream lifecycle here.

Andrei Dan

Designing for large scale vector search with Elasticsearch

Explore the cost, performance and benchmarking for running large-scale vector search in Elasticsearch, with a focus on high-fidelity dense vector search.

Jim Ferenczi

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.

Sunile Manjee

LangChain-Elasticsearch vector database integration and retrievers for RAG

Explore the LangChain and Elasticsearch integration and how it enables you to easily build RAG solutions and leverage retrievers.

Max Jakob

Storage wins for time-series data in Elasticsearch

Explore Elasticsearch's storage improvements for time series data and best practices for configuring a TSDS with storage efficiency.