OpenSearch Vector Search Concepts

Validated on 26 Jun 2018 • Last edited on 27 Apr 2026

DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch for vector search uses the same managed OpenSearch engine available under Managed Databases. It bundles the k-NN, ML Commons, and Neural Search plugins for vector similarity search, hybrid vector and keyword search, and remote embedding models.

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Vector Search on OpenSearch

Background you need to make good decisions when designing a vector-search system on DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch.

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