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lucene
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Building an efficient sparse keyword index in Python
First, a review of the landscape. As said in the introduction, there aren't a ton of good options. Apache Lucene is by far the best traditional search index from a speed, performance and functionality standpoint. It's the base for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and many other projects. But it requires Java.
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Java Panama Vector API Integrated with Apache Lucene
https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/10047
2. The Panama Vector API allows CPU's that support it to accelerate vector operations: https://openjdk.org/jeps/438
So this allows fast ANN on Lucene for semantic search!
How did people do this before Lucene supported it? Only through entirely different tools?
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What Is a Vector Database
Are they forking Lucene or somehow getting the Lucene devs to increase that limit? Because this PR has been open for over a year now: https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/11507
- An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
- Lucene 9.4 (optionally) uses Panama's mapped MemorySegments when JDK 19 is detected
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A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work
Lucene's adaptation of Roaring uses the complement idea on a block-wise basis:
https://github.com/apache/lucene/blob/84cae4f27cfd3feb3bb42d...
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How are documents stored in Elasticsearch?
Like someone said, it's in locations as specified in the path.data. Depending on sharing and replication, it could be on more than one host. Elastic uses Apache Lucene to store documents, since it's open source, that rabbit hole will welcome research :-)
- panama/foreign status update
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service
It is pretty clear to me that Elastic is planning to build their ANN features differently than OpenDistro's k-NN implementation, or other plugins modules that extend Easticsearch in similar ways. They now will build on the Apache Lucene capabilities that were collaboratively built "upstream" by a number of individuals, some that work for Amazon and some that work for Elastic.
From the linked issue, it seemed that they were originally planning to develop this as a proprietary feature of Elasticsearch, without contributing the functionality to Apache Lucene, but then changed direction when the Apache Lucene developers (some of which are currently employed to do such work by Amazon) started to build its approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) vector search capabilities. [1]
It's great to see folks that work for Elastic collaborating and building on what is in Apache Lucene to extend the utility of ANN with Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graphs (HNSW) [2]! From this, I think it should be possible to implement an Open Source version of the functionality with a compatible API, if that is something that OpenSearch users seek.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9004
[2] https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/250
quickwit
- Show HN: Search on S3 Using AWS Lambda
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Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
Hi folks, Quickwit cofounder here.
We started Quickwit 3 years ago with a POC, "Searching the web for under $1000/month" (see HN discussions [0]), with the goal of making a robust OSS alternative to Elasticsearch / Splunk / Datadog.
We have reached a significant milestone with our latest release (0.7) [1], as we have witnessed users of the nightly version of Quickwit deploy clusters with hundreds of nodes, ingest hundreds of terabytes of data daily, and enjoy considerable cost savings.
To give you a concrete example, one company is ingesting hundreds of terabytes of logs daily and migrating from Elasticsearch to Quickwit. They divided their compute costs by 5x and storage costs by 2x while increasing retention from 3 to 30 days. They also increased their durability, accuracy with exactly-once semantics thanks to the native Kafka support, and elasticity.
The 0.7 release also brings better integrations with the Observability ecosystem: improvements of the Elasticsearch-compatible API and better support of OpenTelemetry standards, Grafana, and Jaeger.
Of course, we still have a lot of work to be a fully-fledged observability engine, and we would love to get some feedback or suggestions.
To give you a glance at our 2024 roadmap, we planned to focus on Kibana/OpenDashboard integration, metrics support, and pipe-based query language.
[0] Searching the web for under $1000/month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481
[1] Release blog post: https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-0.7
[2] Open Source Repo: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
[3] Home Page: https://quickwit.io
- Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch
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S3 Express Is All You Need
We tested S3 Express for our search engine quickwit[0] a couple of weeks ago.
While this was really satisfying on the performance side, we were a bit disappointed by the price, and I mostly agree with the article on this matter.
I can see some very specific use cases where the pricing should be OK but currently, I would say most of our users should just stay on the classic S3 and add some local SSD caching if they have a lot of requests.
[0] https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit/
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Show HN: Quickwit – Cost-Efficient OSS Search Engine for Observability
Hi HN, I’m one of the builders of Quickwit, a cloud-native OSS search engine for observability. As of 2023, we support logs and traces, metrics will come in 2024.
You know the pitch: while software like Datadog or Splunk are great, they often comes with hefty price tags. Our mission is to offer an affordable alternative. So we’ve built Quickwit, we’ve made it compatible with the observabilty ecosystem (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Grafana) and above all, we’ve made it cost-efficient / “easy” to scale (well it’s never easy to scale to petabytes..).
To give you a glance at the engine performance I made a benchmark on the GitHub Archive dataset, 23 TB of events, here are the main observations:
Indexing: costs $2 per ingested TB. With 4CPU, throughput is at 20MBs However, you'll observe > 30MB throughput on simpler datasets, like logs and traces.
Search: a typical query costs $0.0002 per TB (considering both CPU time and GET request costs). Using 8CPU, a simple query on 23TB is achieved in under a second.
Storage: on S3, it costs $8 per ingested TB per month on the GitHub Archive dataset. With logs and traces, you might see costs around $5/ingested TB due to a 2x better compression ratio.
I'm eager to get your thoughts on this!
Benchmark: https://quickwit.io/blog/benchmarking-quickwit-engine-on-an-...
Github repo: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit/
Website: https://quickwit.io/
- On S3, it costs $8 per ingested TB per month on the GitHub Archive dataset. With logs and traces, you might see costs around $4/ingested TB due to a 2x better compression ratio.
I'm eager to get your thoughts on this!
[0] Benchmark: https://quickwit.io/blog/benchmarking-quickwit-engine-on-an-...
- OSS Sub-second search and analytics engine on cloud storage
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)
Quickwit (https://quickwit.io/) | Paris, France | Onsite and remote (based in Europe) | Full-time
The company is fully remote but we also have a small office in Paris. We prefer candidates based in Europe but can make exceptions for the right profiles.
- Senior Software Engineer 80-110k€ + 0.25-1% equity based on experience.
We’re looking for a senior software engineer to contribute to [Quickwit](https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit), our open-source search and analytics engine. We have an ambitious roadmap for the next 18 months (performance optimization, distributed storage, support for SQL, query optimizer, revamp of our execution engine, etc.), and this is a great opportunity to shape the future of Quickwit while tackling fun and challenging problems in the field of distributed databases.
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Observe your Rust application with Quickwit, Jaeger and Grafana
In our latest blog post, we walk you through the steps of instrumenting your Rust application and monitoring the performance on Grafana using Quickwit + Jaeger.
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Quickwit 0.6.0 - Search and analytics on billions of logs with minimal hardware
Link: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
What are some alternatives?
pisa - PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow
Typesense - Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.
RoaringBitmap - A better compressed bitset in Java: used by Apache Spark, Netflix Atlas, Apache Pinot, Tablesaw, and many others
elasticsearch-py - Official Python client for Elasticsearch
OpenSearch - 🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
manticoresearch - Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch now | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK soon
Apache Solr - Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software
openobserve - 🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces, RUM, Error tracking, Session replay).
resin - Vector space search engine. Available as a HTTP service or as an embedded library.
zincsearch - ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go.