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Vespa Meetup in Sunnyvale
WHAT: Vespa meetup with various presentations from the Vespa team.
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Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, August 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multilingual models, more control over ANN queries, mapped tensors in queries, and multiple new features in pyvespa and the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, July 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vector Streaming Search, GPU accelerated embeddings, Huggingface models and a solution to MIPS using a nearest neighbor search.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, May 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multi-vector HNSW Indexing, global-phase re-ranking, LangChain support, improved bfloat16 throughput, and new document feed/export features in the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, March 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include GPU support, advanced BCP autoscaling, GCP Private Service Connect, and a great update to the e-commerce sample app.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Better Tensor formats, AWS PrivateLink, Autoscaling, Data Plane Access Control and Container and Content Node Performance.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2022
Vespa features and performance advances include ANN Pre-Filter Performance, Parent Field Hit-Estimates, Model Training Notebooks, and GCP Support.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, October 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include a BertBase Embedder / model hub, improved query performance, paged attributes, ARM64 support and term bolding in string arrays.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, September 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include rank-phase statistics, detailed rank performance analysis, new query- and trace-applications and a new training video!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, June 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include ANN with configurable filtering, fuzzy matching, and native embedding support. Also see pyvespa’s new experimental ranking module!

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, April 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor and ranking configuration improvements, pyvespa usability features and grouping configuration. Also find new guides for performance and ANN. And a podcast!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2022
Advances in Vespa features, performance and operability improvements include: Improved synonym support, faster node recovery, re-balancing and re-indexing, WeakAnd query type and new pyvespa features and sample applications.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, December 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor performance improvements, match-features and a Vespa IntelliJ plugin.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved schema inheritance, Intellij plugin for schemas, Hamming distance in ranking, and performance gains in data dump and application deployment.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vespa CLI, nearest neighbor performance improvements, mTLS security, improved write throughput and Sentencepiece Encoder.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, July 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include HTTP/2 feed and query endpoints, ONNX Runtime integration for stateless model inference, and the new open Vespa Factory build and test system.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, May 2021
Advances in features and performance include new int8 and bfloat16 tensor cell types, compact tensor feed format, Approximate Nearest Neighbor using Hamming distance, hash-based attribute dictionaries and case-sensitive attribute search...

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, March 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include mass update/delete in /document/v1/, improved memory usage, OR-to-WeakAnd and better full node protection.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, January 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include Automatic Reindexing, Tensor Optimizations and Explainlevel Query Parameter for easier query blueprint tracing.

Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, December 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved tensor ranking performance, Apache ZooKeeper integration, Vespa Python API for researchers and ONNX integration.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, October 2020
Improvement to Vespa feeding APIs

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2020
Introducing ONNX-Runtime, Hamming Distance Metric, Conditional Update Performance Improvements and Compressed Transaction Log with Synced Ack
Vespa Product Updates, August 2020
Introducing NLP with Transformers, Grafana how-to, Improved GEO Search Support, Query Profile Variants Optimizations, & Build on Debian 10
Vespa Product Updates, June 2020
Announcing support for approximate nearest neighbor vector search which can be combined with filters and text search with state-of-the art performance
Vespa Product Updates, May 2020
The May 2020 update includes Improved Slow Node Tolerance, Multi-Threaded Rank Profile Compilation, Reduced Peak Memory at Startup, Feed Performance Improvements, & Increased Tensor Performance.
Vespa Product Updates, April 2020
The April 2020 update includes Top-K hits, smarter data migration and CloudWatch integration. Contributing to Vespa is now easier with the release of a CentOS 7 dev environment.
Vespa Product Updates, February 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance in February include LightGBM support, improved tensor performance, benchmarking guide and query builder library
Vespa Product Updates, January 2020
The January 2020 update includes information about new tensor functions, updated sizing guides and various performance improvements.
Vespa Product Updates, December 2019: Improved ONNX support, New rank feature attributeMatch().maxWeight, Free lists for attribute multivalue mapping, faster updates for out-of-sync documents, Zookeeper 3.5.6
In the November Vespa product update, we mentioned Nearest Neighbor and Tensor Ranking, Optimized JSON Tensor Feed Format, Matched Elements in Complex Multi-value Fields, Large Weighted Set Update Performance and...
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, 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...
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...
Tag search

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, August 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multilingual models, more control over ANN queries, mapped tensors in queries, and multiple new features in pyvespa and the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, July 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vector Streaming Search, GPU accelerated embeddings, Huggingface models and a solution to MIPS using a nearest neighbor search.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, May 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multi-vector HNSW Indexing, global-phase re-ranking, LangChain support, improved bfloat16 throughput, and new document feed/export features in the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, March 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include GPU support, advanced BCP autoscaling, GCP Private Service Connect, and a great update to the e-commerce sample app.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Better Tensor formats, AWS PrivateLink, Autoscaling, Data Plane Access Control and Container and Content Node Performance.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2022
Vespa features and performance advances include ANN Pre-Filter Performance, Parent Field Hit-Estimates, Model Training Notebooks, and GCP Support.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, October 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include a BertBase Embedder / model hub, improved query performance, paged attributes, ARM64 support and term bolding in string arrays.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, September 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include rank-phase statistics, detailed rank performance analysis, new query- and trace-applications and a new training video!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, June 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include ANN with configurable filtering, fuzzy matching, and native embedding support. Also see pyvespa’s new experimental ranking module!

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, April 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor and ranking configuration improvements, pyvespa usability features and grouping configuration. Also find new guides for performance and ANN. And a podcast!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2022
Advances in Vespa features, performance and operability improvements include: Improved synonym support, faster node recovery, re-balancing and re-indexing, WeakAnd query type and new pyvespa features and sample applications.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, December 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor performance improvements, match-features and a Vespa IntelliJ plugin.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved schema inheritance, Intellij plugin for schemas, Hamming distance in ranking, and performance gains in data dump and application deployment.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vespa CLI, nearest neighbor performance improvements, mTLS security, improved write throughput and Sentencepiece Encoder.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, July 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include HTTP/2 feed and query endpoints, ONNX Runtime integration for stateless model inference, and the new open Vespa Factory build and test system.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, May 2021
Advances in features and performance include new int8 and bfloat16 tensor cell types, compact tensor feed format, Approximate Nearest Neighbor using Hamming distance, hash-based attribute dictionaries and case-sensitive attribute search...

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, March 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include mass update/delete in /document/v1/, improved memory usage, OR-to-WeakAnd and better full node protection.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, January 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include Automatic Reindexing, Tensor Optimizations and Explainlevel Query Parameter for easier query blueprint tracing.

Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, December 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved tensor ranking performance, Apache ZooKeeper integration, Vespa Python API for researchers and ONNX integration.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, October 2020
Improvement to Vespa feeding APIs

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2020
Introducing ONNX-Runtime, Hamming Distance Metric, Conditional Update Performance Improvements and Compressed Transaction Log with Synced Ack
Vespa Product Updates, August 2020
Introducing NLP with Transformers, Grafana how-to, Improved GEO Search Support, Query Profile Variants Optimizations, & Build on Debian 10
Vespa Product Updates, June 2020
Announcing support for approximate nearest neighbor vector search which can be combined with filters and text search with state-of-the art performance
Vespa Product Updates, May 2020
The May 2020 update includes Improved Slow Node Tolerance, Multi-Threaded Rank Profile Compilation, Reduced Peak Memory at Startup, Feed Performance Improvements, & Increased Tensor Performance.
Vespa Product Updates, April 2020
The April 2020 update includes Top-K hits, smarter data migration and CloudWatch integration. Contributing to Vespa is now easier with the release of a CentOS 7 dev environment.
Vespa Product Updates, February 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance in February include LightGBM support, improved tensor performance, benchmarking guide and query builder library
Vespa Product Updates, January 2020
The January 2020 update includes information about new tensor functions, updated sizing guides and various performance improvements.
Vespa Product Updates, December 2019: Improved ONNX support, New rank feature attributeMatch().maxWeight, Free lists for attribute multivalue mapping, faster updates for out-of-sync documents, Zookeeper 3.5.6
In the November Vespa product update, we mentioned Nearest Neighbor and Tensor Ranking, Optimized JSON Tensor Feed Format, Matched Elements in Complex Multi-value Fields, Large Weighted Set Update Performance and...
Learning to Rank with Vespa – Getting started with Text Search
Vespa.ai have just published two tutorials to help people to get started with text search applications by building scalable solutions with Vespa. The tutorials were based on the full document...
E-commerce search and recommendation with Vespa.ai
Holiday shopping season is upon us and it’s time for a blog post on E-commerce search and recommendation using Vespa.ai. Vespa.ai is used as the search and recommendation backend at...
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, 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...
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...
Tag big data

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, August 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multilingual models, more control over ANN queries, mapped tensors in queries, and multiple new features in pyvespa and the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, July 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vector Streaming Search, GPU accelerated embeddings, Huggingface models and a solution to MIPS using a nearest neighbor search.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, May 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multi-vector HNSW Indexing, global-phase re-ranking, LangChain support, improved bfloat16 throughput, and new document feed/export features in the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, March 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include GPU support, advanced BCP autoscaling, GCP Private Service Connect, and a great update to the e-commerce sample app.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Better Tensor formats, AWS PrivateLink, Autoscaling, Data Plane Access Control and Container and Content Node Performance.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2022
Vespa features and performance advances include ANN Pre-Filter Performance, Parent Field Hit-Estimates, Model Training Notebooks, and GCP Support.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, October 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include a BertBase Embedder / model hub, improved query performance, paged attributes, ARM64 support and term bolding in string arrays.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, September 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include rank-phase statistics, detailed rank performance analysis, new query- and trace-applications and a new training video!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, June 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include ANN with configurable filtering, fuzzy matching, and native embedding support. Also see pyvespa’s new experimental ranking module!

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, April 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor and ranking configuration improvements, pyvespa usability features and grouping configuration. Also find new guides for performance and ANN. And a podcast!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2022
Advances in Vespa features, performance and operability improvements include: Improved synonym support, faster node recovery, re-balancing and re-indexing, WeakAnd query type and new pyvespa features and sample applications.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, December 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor performance improvements, match-features and a Vespa IntelliJ plugin.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved schema inheritance, Intellij plugin for schemas, Hamming distance in ranking, and performance gains in data dump and application deployment.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vespa CLI, nearest neighbor performance improvements, mTLS security, improved write throughput and Sentencepiece Encoder.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, July 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include HTTP/2 feed and query endpoints, ONNX Runtime integration for stateless model inference, and the new open Vespa Factory build and test system.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, May 2021
Advances in features and performance include new int8 and bfloat16 tensor cell types, compact tensor feed format, Approximate Nearest Neighbor using Hamming distance, hash-based attribute dictionaries and case-sensitive attribute search...

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, March 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include mass update/delete in /document/v1/, improved memory usage, OR-to-WeakAnd and better full node protection.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, January 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include Automatic Reindexing, Tensor Optimizations and Explainlevel Query Parameter for easier query blueprint tracing.

Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, December 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved tensor ranking performance, Apache ZooKeeper integration, Vespa Python API for researchers and ONNX integration.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, October 2020
Improvement to Vespa feeding APIs

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2020
Introducing ONNX-Runtime, Hamming Distance Metric, Conditional Update Performance Improvements and Compressed Transaction Log with Synced Ack
Vespa Product Updates, August 2020
Introducing NLP with Transformers, Grafana how-to, Improved GEO Search Support, Query Profile Variants Optimizations, & Build on Debian 10
Vespa Product Updates, June 2020
Announcing support for approximate nearest neighbor vector search which can be combined with filters and text search with state-of-the art performance
Vespa Product Updates, May 2020
The May 2020 update includes Improved Slow Node Tolerance, Multi-Threaded Rank Profile Compilation, Reduced Peak Memory at Startup, Feed Performance Improvements, & Increased Tensor Performance.
Vespa Product Updates, April 2020
The April 2020 update includes Top-K hits, smarter data migration and CloudWatch integration. Contributing to Vespa is now easier with the release of a CentOS 7 dev environment.
Vespa Product Updates, February 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance in February include LightGBM support, improved tensor performance, benchmarking guide and query builder library
Vespa Product Updates, January 2020
The January 2020 update includes information about new tensor functions, updated sizing guides and various performance improvements.
Vespa Product Updates, December 2019: Improved ONNX support, New rank feature attributeMatch().maxWeight, Free lists for attribute multivalue mapping, faster updates for out-of-sync documents, Zookeeper 3.5.6
In the November Vespa product update, we mentioned Nearest Neighbor and Tensor Ranking, Optimized JSON Tensor Feed Format, Matched Elements in Complex Multi-value Fields, Large Weighted Set Update Performance and...
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, 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...
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...
Tag search engines

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, August 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multilingual models, more control over ANN queries, mapped tensors in queries, and multiple new features in pyvespa and the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, July 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vector Streaming Search, GPU accelerated embeddings, Huggingface models and a solution to MIPS using a nearest neighbor search.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, May 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multi-vector HNSW Indexing, global-phase re-ranking, LangChain support, improved bfloat16 throughput, and new document feed/export features in the Vespa CLI.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, March 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include GPU support, advanced BCP autoscaling, GCP Private Service Connect, and a great update to the e-commerce sample app.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Better Tensor formats, AWS PrivateLink, Autoscaling, Data Plane Access Control and Container and Content Node Performance.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2022
Vespa features and performance advances include ANN Pre-Filter Performance, Parent Field Hit-Estimates, Model Training Notebooks, and GCP Support.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, October 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include a BertBase Embedder / model hub, improved query performance, paged attributes, ARM64 support and term bolding in string arrays.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, September 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include rank-phase statistics, detailed rank performance analysis, new query- and trace-applications and a new training video!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, June 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include ANN with configurable filtering, fuzzy matching, and native embedding support. Also see pyvespa’s new experimental ranking module!

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, April 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor and ranking configuration improvements, pyvespa usability features and grouping configuration. Also find new guides for performance and ANN. And a podcast!

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, January 2022
Advances in Vespa features, performance and operability improvements include: Improved synonym support, faster node recovery, re-balancing and re-indexing, WeakAnd query type and new pyvespa features and sample applications.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, December 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor performance improvements, match-features and a Vespa IntelliJ plugin.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Newsletter, November 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved schema inheritance, Intellij plugin for schemas, Hamming distance in ranking, and performance gains in data dump and application deployment.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vespa CLI, nearest neighbor performance improvements, mTLS security, improved write throughput and Sentencepiece Encoder.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, July 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include HTTP/2 feed and query endpoints, ONNX Runtime integration for stateless model inference, and the new open Vespa Factory build and test system.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, May 2021
Advances in features and performance include new int8 and bfloat16 tensor cell types, compact tensor feed format, Approximate Nearest Neighbor using Hamming distance, hash-based attribute dictionaries and case-sensitive attribute search...

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, March 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include mass update/delete in /document/v1/, improved memory usage, OR-to-WeakAnd and better full node protection.

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, January 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include Automatic Reindexing, Tensor Optimizations and Explainlevel Query Parameter for easier query blueprint tracing.

Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, December 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved tensor ranking performance, Apache ZooKeeper integration, Vespa Python API for researchers and ONNX integration.

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, October 2020
Improvement to Vespa feeding APIs

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
Vespa Product Updates, September 2020
Introducing ONNX-Runtime, Hamming Distance Metric, Conditional Update Performance Improvements and Compressed Transaction Log with Synced Ack
Vespa Product Updates, August 2020
Introducing NLP with Transformers, Grafana how-to, Improved GEO Search Support, Query Profile Variants Optimizations, & Build on Debian 10
Vespa Product Updates, June 2020
Announcing support for approximate nearest neighbor vector search which can be combined with filters and text search with state-of-the art performance
Vespa Product Updates, May 2020
The May 2020 update includes Improved Slow Node Tolerance, Multi-Threaded Rank Profile Compilation, Reduced Peak Memory at Startup, Feed Performance Improvements, & Increased Tensor Performance.
Vespa Product Updates, April 2020
The April 2020 update includes Top-K hits, smarter data migration and CloudWatch integration. Contributing to Vespa is now easier with the release of a CentOS 7 dev environment.
Vespa Product Updates, February 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance in February include LightGBM support, improved tensor performance, benchmarking guide and query builder library
Vespa Product Updates, January 2020
The January 2020 update includes information about new tensor functions, updated sizing guides and various performance improvements.
Vespa Product Updates, December 2019: Improved ONNX support, New rank feature attributeMatch().maxWeight, Free lists for attribute multivalue mapping, faster updates for out-of-sync documents, Zookeeper 3.5.6
In the November Vespa product update, we mentioned Nearest Neighbor and Tensor Ranking, Optimized JSON Tensor Feed Format, Matched Elements in Complex Multi-value Fields, Large Weighted Set Update Performance and...
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, 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...
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...
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Vespa 7 is released!
This week we rolled the major version of Vespa over from 6 to 7.
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Learning to Rank with Vespa – Getting started with Text Search
Vespa.ai have just published two tutorials to help people to get started with text search applications by building scalable solutions with Vespa. The tutorials were based on the full document...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Vespa Newsletter, August 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multilingual models, more control over ANN queries, mapped tensors in queries, and multiple new features in pyvespa and the Vespa CLI.

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Vespa Newsletter, July 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vector Streaming Search, GPU accelerated embeddings, Huggingface models and a solution to MIPS using a nearest neighbor search.

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Vespa Newsletter, May 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include multi-vector HNSW Indexing, global-phase re-ranking, LangChain support, improved bfloat16 throughput, and new document feed/export features in the Vespa CLI.

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Vespa Newsletter, March 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include GPU support, advanced BCP autoscaling, GCP Private Service Connect, and a great update to the e-commerce sample app.

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Vespa Newsletter, January 2023
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Better Tensor formats, AWS PrivateLink, Autoscaling, Data Plane Access Control and Container and Content Node Performance.

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Vespa Newsletter, November 2022
Vespa features and performance advances include ANN Pre-Filter Performance, Parent Field Hit-Estimates, Model Training Notebooks, and GCP Support.

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Vespa Newsletter, October 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include a BertBase Embedder / model hub, improved query performance, paged attributes, ARM64 support and term bolding in string arrays.

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Vespa Newsletter, September 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include rank-phase statistics, detailed rank performance analysis, new query- and trace-applications and a new training video!

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Vespa Newsletter, June 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include ANN with configurable filtering, fuzzy matching, and native embedding support. Also see pyvespa’s new experimental ranking module!

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Vespa Newsletter, April 2022
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor and ranking configuration improvements, pyvespa usability features and grouping configuration. Also find new guides for performance and ANN. And a podcast!

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Vespa Newsletter, January 2022
Advances in Vespa features, performance and operability improvements include: Improved synonym support, faster node recovery, re-balancing and re-indexing, WeakAnd query type and new pyvespa features and sample applications.

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Vespa Newsletter, December 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include tensor performance improvements, match-features and a Vespa IntelliJ plugin.

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Vespa Newsletter, November 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved schema inheritance, Intellij plugin for schemas, Hamming distance in ranking, and performance gains in data dump and application deployment.

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Vespa Product Updates, September 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include Vespa CLI, nearest neighbor performance improvements, mTLS security, improved write throughput and Sentencepiece Encoder.

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Vespa Product Updates, July 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance include HTTP/2 feed and query endpoints, ONNX Runtime integration for stateless model inference, and the new open Vespa Factory build and test system.

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Vespa Product Updates, May 2021
Advances in features and performance include new int8 and bfloat16 tensor cell types, compact tensor feed format, Approximate Nearest Neighbor using Hamming distance, hash-based attribute dictionaries and case-sensitive attribute search...

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Vespa Product Updates, March 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include mass update/delete in /document/v1/, improved memory usage, OR-to-WeakAnd and better full node protection.

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Vespa Product Updates, January 2021
Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include Automatic Reindexing, Tensor Optimizations and Explainlevel Query Parameter for easier query blueprint tracing.

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Vespa Product Updates, December 2020
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved tensor ranking performance, Apache ZooKeeper integration, Vespa Python API for researchers and ONNX integration.

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Vespa Product Updates, October 2020
Improvement to Vespa feeding APIs

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