OpenSearch 3.0 Released

Latest iteration bolsters open, scalable, community-driven search and analytics, enabling sustainable innovation SAN FRANCISCO – May 6, 2025 – The OpenSearch Software Foundation, the vendor-neutral home for the OpenSearch Project, today announced the general availability of OpenSearch 3.0. This major release delivers a 9.5x performance improvement over OpenSearch 1.3, building on benchmarking data that showed earlier iterations of OpenSearch operating 1.6x faster than its closest industry competitor. Today’s AI applications — like generative AI, hybrid search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and recommendation engines — rely heavily on vector databases to find patterns in massive, complex datasets, but as the number of vectors explodes into the billions, many organizations struggle with speed, spend and scalability. Forrester emphasizes that traditional databases are no longer able to meet the growing demands of generative AI due to limitations in supporting modern vector multid ... Read full article.