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As the OpenSearch project continues to evolve, it forges its own path by prioritizing features driven by the needs and feedback of its community and users. In this spirit of progress, we’ve highlighted the most significant improvements and advancements introduced in 2024.

What query limits exist for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, and what you should know about them?

How to migrate from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch? How to achieve full and smooth migraiton with minimal or zero downtime.

Explore how Pulse simplifies Elasticsearch and OpenSearch management with its launch on AWS Marketplace. Gain insights into how Pulse delivers automated optimizations, cost savings, and peak performance, making cluster management effortless for businesses of any scale.

Explore essential strategies to optimize Elasticsearch performance and cost efficiency. Learn best practices for cluster scaling, data tiering, and monitoring for both Elastic Cloud and on-premises deployments.

In this blog post, we'll review the available ways to monitor your Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster, aiming to offer a comprehensive guide to help you choose the perfect tool.

In today’s competitive digital marketplace, delivering a great search experience is key. This blog shares how we used Amazon OpenSearch and Amazon Bedrock to enhance a customer’s search functionality, including using a large language model (LLM) to improve synonym expansion.

This post explores how semantic search – powered by large multi-modal models and Amazon OpenSearch Service – can significantly enhance image retrieval accuracy and relevance.

Today marks a special day for our team at BigData Boutique as we proudly launch Pulse, our groundbreaking solution for proactive Elasticsearch and OpenSearch cluster management. Pulse embodies our commitment to doing Elasticsearch and OpenSearch operations right, and we can't wait to share it.

Elasticsearch Data Streams provide powerful ways to manage time series data and other types of append-only data.

In Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, caching plays a fundamental role in performance tuning.

Poor query performance in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is likely the top complaint we see. Here is how to go about fixing it.

Should you use Elasticsearch and OpenSearch as a primary database? In this article we look into various use-cases where this is applicable, and present some gotchas you should consider, as well as scenarios in which it isn’t going to work well.

BigData Boutique joined forces with DoiT and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a webinar on OpenSearch cost optimization, and it was a goldmine for anyone looking to tighten their OpenSearch belt.

BigData Boutique and Aiven joined forces for an OpenSearch fireside chat, packed with insights for optimizing OpenSearch clusters!

An Elasticsearch cluster with unassigned shards is not a healthy cluster. In this tip we explain why, and how to fix that situation.

A question we often get is what are good Elasticsearch alternatives. As you'd expect, it depends. In this post we'll go through some of the alternatives to Elasticsearch for various use-cases.

In this blog post, we'll review the available Elasticsearch monitoring tools, aiming to offer a comprehensive guide to help you choose the perfect tool for monitoring your OpenSearch clusters.

Learn how MyPart revolutionized song search by using vector embeddings, and how to implement efficient Vector Search with OpenSearch yourself.

Elasticsearch Slow Logs can help identify issues and highlight slow queries. In this tip we show how to enable Elasticsearch slow logs, and how to access them on several platforms including OpenSearch.