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Elastic 9.5: Columnar Mode and VectorDB index mode

Columnar Mode (tech preview) stores a field once in a column store without an inverted index, letting Elasticsearch operate as a fully columnar store for search and analytics with less disk usage. VectorDB index mode automatically calibrates vector quantization without manual index tuning.

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Elastic 9.2: Agent Builder, DiskBBQ, Streams

Agent Builder is a native chat interface for Elasticsearch data and a builder for AI agents. DiskBBQ is a vector index that searches clusters directly on disk without loading them into memory (under 20 ms with 100 MB of memory). ES|QL now includes Smart Lookup Joins, matching across multiple fields through remote clusters.

n8n has built agent workflows on top of any data sources since 2023; Agent Builder does the same but is tightly connected to Elasticsearch data n8n →
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Elastic completed its acquisition of Jina AI

Elastic closed its acquisition of Jina AI, adding embedding models, rerankers, and small language models for multimodal and multilingual search. Elastic confirmed that the models will remain open-weight, be published free of charge on Hugging Face, and also be available through Elastic Inference Service.

Jina embeddings and reranker power RAG pipelines on Elasticsearch; the weights are open, enabling self-hosting without Elastic Cloud RAG →

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