About the author
Jim Ferenczi is an Elasticsearch Engineer and a Lucene committer at The Apache Software Foundation. Before joining Elastic, Jim worked for Exalead on web search and for Rakuten on e-commerce search.
Author’s articles
August 26, 2025
Lighter by default: Excluding vectors from source
Elasticsearch now excludes vectors from source by default, saving space and improving performance while keeping vectors accessible when needed.
June 12, 2024
Designing for large scale vector search with Elasticsearch
Explore the cost, performance and benchmarking for running large-scale vector search in Elasticsearch, with a focus on high-fidelity dense vector search.
April 26, 2024
Making Elasticsearch and Lucene the best vector database: up to 8x faster and 32x efficient
Discover the recent enhancements and optimizations that notably improve vector search performance in Elasticsearch & Lucene vector database.