Getting started with Search - Amazon ElastiCache
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Getting started with Search

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey supports real-time full-text, exact-match (tag), numeric range, vector, and hybrid searches. It offers a high-performance search engine optimized for AI-driven / Search / Analytics / Recommendation System related workloads, delivering latency as low as microseconds. ElastiCache for Valkey provides the lowest latency vector search with the highest throughput and best price-performance at 95%+ recall rate among popular vector databases on AWS. ElastiCache for Valkey provides capabilities to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic or OpenAI for fast search and retrieval with up to 99% recall. Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is ideal for use cases where peak performance, consistency and scalability are the most important selection criteria. This includes semantic caching, AI agent memory, retrieval-augmented generation, real-time recommendations, personalization, and anomaly detection.

To learn more about the Search feature availability in ElastiCache Valkey engine versions, see Search features and limits.

For a detailed description of the supported commands, examples and configuration options, see the Command Reference.

You can learn more about the Search feature and related concepts at Valkey Search documentation.

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