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Using NVIDIA NIM with Elasticsearch vector store

Explore how NVIDIA NIM enhances applications with NLP capabilities and learn how to integrate NVIDIA NIM with Elasticsearch.

Alex Salgado

How to choose the best k and num_candidates for kNN search

Learn strategies for selecting the optimal values for `k` and `num_candidates` parameters in kNN search, illustrated with practical examples.

Madhusudhan Konda

Using Elasticsearch as a vector database for Azure OpenAI On Your Data

Learn how to set up and ingest data into Elasticsearch for use as a vector database with Azure OpenAI On Your Data, allowing you to chat with your private data.

Paul Oremland

Elasticsearch open inference API adds support for Azure OpenAI embeddings

Elasticsearch open inference API adds support for Azure OpenAI embeddings to be stored in the world's most downloaded vector database.

Mark Hoy

Elasticsearch open inference API adds support for Azure OpenAI chat completions

Azure OpenAI chat completions is available via the Elasticsearch inference API. Learn how to use this feature to answer questions.

Tim Grein

Elasticsearch open inference API adds Azure AI Studio support

Elasticsearch open inference API now supports Azure AI Studio. Learn how to use Azure AI Studio capabilities with Elasticsearch in this blog.

Mark Hoy

Elasticsearch delivers performance increase for users running the Elastic Search AI Platform on Arm-based architectures

Benchmarking in preview provides Elasticsearch up to 37% better performance on Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs.

Yuvraj Gupta

Elastic Cloud adds Elasticsearch Vector Database optimized profile to Microsoft Azure

Elasticsearch added a new vector search optimized profile to Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Get started and learn how to use it here.

Serena Chou

How to choose between exact and approximate kNN search in Elasticsearch

Learn more about exact and approximate kNN search in Elasticsearch, and when to use each one.

Carlos Delgado

Building Elastic Cloud Serverless

Explore the architecture of Elastic Cloud Serverless and key design and scalability decisions we made along the way of building it.

Jason Tedor

Search relevance tuning: Balancing keyword and semantic search

This blog offers practical strategies for tuning search relevance that can be complementary to semantic search.

Kathleen DeRusso

Vector similarity measures and scoring

Explore vector similarity measures​ and scoring in Elasticsearch, including L1 & L2 distance, cosine similarity, dot product similarity and max inner product similarity.

Valentin Crettaz