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The Definitive Guide to OpenSearch
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The Definitive Guide to OpenSearch

by Jon Handler, Soujanya Konka, Prashant Agrawal
September 2025
Beginner to intermediate
386 pages
9h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preface

OpenSearch is a “Swiss Army knife” that touches diverse use cases spanning application features, operations, and generative AI. If there’s one unifying theme of the software, it is that it enables storing and retrieving data to support intelligent decision-making. It’s a database, but it’s a funny kind of database that emphasizes speed and volume processing over consistency. It’s a logs store, but a funny kind of logs store that emphasizes aggregations and log-line search. It’s a data source for generative AI, but it’s a funny kind of data source that brings rich search to the retrieval of information for prompts. In all these cases, OpenSearch provides high-volume request processing and intelligent retrieval of data.

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