Powering Billion-Scale Vector Search with OpenSearch

Powering Billion-Scale Vector Search with OpenSearch

• Introduction At Uber, our systems handle massive amounts of data daily, from ridesharing to delivery. • We’ve traditionally used keyword-based search with Apache Lucene™. • Howev

Engineering Blogs · December 18, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 190 words
How Uber Indexes Streaming Data with Pull-Based Ingestion in OpenSearch™

How Uber Indexes Streaming Data with Pull-Based Ingestion in OpenSearch™

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Engineering Blogs · December 16, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 236 words
Elasticsearch 9.0 & 8.18: Cooked for developers, with another helping of blazing-fast BBQ - 5x faster than OpenSearch

Elasticsearch 9.0 & 8.18: Cooked for developers, with another helping of blazing-fast BBQ - 5x faster than OpenSearch

• Elasticsearch 9.0 & 8.18 released, available on Elastic Cloud and self‑managed. • Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) now GA, 5x faster than OpenSearch BBQ. • BBQ offers 20% higher