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Vespa Product Updates, October/November 2019: Nearest Neighbor and Tensor Ranking, Optimized JSON Tensor Feed Format, Matched Elements in Complex Multi-value Fields, Large Weighted Set Update Performance, and Datadog Monitoring Support

In the September Vespa product update, we mentioned Tensor Float Support, Reduced Memory Use for Text Attributes, Prometheus Monitoring Support, and Query Dispatch Integrated in Container.

Vespa Product Updates, September 2019: Tensor Float Support, Reduced Memory Use for Text Attributes, Prometheus Monitoring Support, and Query Dispatch Integrated in Container

In the August Vespa product update, we mentioned BM25 Rank Feature, Searchable Parent References, Tensor Summary Features, and Metrics Export. Largely developed by Yahoo engineers, Vespa is an open source...

Vespa Product Updates, August 2019: BM25 Rank Feature, Searchable Parent References, Tensor Summary Features, and Metrics Export

In the recent Vespa product update, we mentioned Large Machine Learning Models, Multithreaded Disk Index Fusion, Ideal State Optimizations, and Feeding Improvements. Largely developed by Yahoo engineers, Vespa is an...

Vespa Product Updates, May 2019: Deploy Large Machine Learning Models, Multithreaded Disk Index Fusion, Ideal State Optimizations, and Feeding Improvements

In last month’s Vespa update, we mentioned Tensor updates, Query tracing and coverage. Largely developed by Yahoo engineers, Vespa is an open source big data processing and serving engine. It’s...

Vespa use case: shopping

Imagine you are tasked with creating a shopping website. How would you proceed? What tools and technologies would you choose? You need a technology that allows you to create data-driven...

Vespa Product Updates, March 2019: Tensor updates, Query tracing and coverage

In last month’s Vespa update, we mentioned Boolean Field Type, Environment Variables, and Advanced Search Core Tuning. Largely developed by Yahoo engineers, Vespa is an open source big data processing...

Vespa Product Updates, February 2019: Boolean Field Type, Environment Variables, and Advanced Search Core Tuning

In last month’s Vespa update, we mentioned Parent/Child, Large File Config Download, and a Simplified Feeding Interface. Largely developed by Yahoo engineers, Vespa is an open source big data processing...

Serving article comments using reinforcement learning of a neural net

Don’t look at the comments. When you allow users to make comments on your content pages you face the problem that not all of them are worth showing — a difficult problem...

Join us at the Big Data Technology Warsaw Summit on February 27th for Scalable Machine-Learned Model Serving

Online evaluation of machine-learned models (model serving) is difficult to scale to large datasets. Vespa.ai is an open source big data serving solution used to solve this problem and in...

Vespa 7 is released!

This week we rolled the major version of Vespa over from 6 to 7.

Vespa Product Updates, January 2019: Parent/Child, Large File Config Download, and a Simplified Feeding Interface

In last month’s Vespa update, we mentioned ONNX integration, precise transaction log pruning, grouping on maps, and improvements to streaming search performance. Largely developed by Yahoo engineers, Vespa is an...

Efficient personal search at large scale

Vespa includes a relatively unknown mode which provides personal search at massive scale for a fraction of the cost of alternatives: streaming search. In this article we explain streaming search...