Nearly every web, mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) application has search functionality that helps its users locate the information they want. Depending on the industry and need, the search requirements for an application may be very simple or astonishingly complex. 
 
While the need for search capabilities is ubiquitous in modern applications, it is surprising to find that most enterprises struggle with building high-performance, robust and cost-effective search components into their business systems. Even though most database vendors have search functionality as part their platform, and various specialized search software exists in both open source and proprietary form, enterprises still wrestle with scaling their systems so they can process increasing data volumes and users, and keeping the search capabilities of their web and mobile applications always online. 
 
This paper describes the general search requirements that most web, mobile and IoT applications have, and the common ways enterprises have tried to deploy search systems in the past. It then describes how NoSQL database systems are fast becoming the standard database platform for these types of applications and why DataStax Enterprise, with its integrated enterprise search capabilities, can make developing powerful search components for an application fast, easy, and cost-effective.

Download Now

The Agent-First Approach for GenAI Success

From Productivity Paradox to Abundance Agenda: Jobs, Growth and Inclusion with GenAI

GigaOm finds Astra DB beats Pinecone in the key performance metrics for relevance and production-ready GenAI and RAG apps.

GigaOm Study: Astra DB Smashes Pinecone in GenAI Performance

Streamlining AI Projects: Your One-stop Resource Hub for Seamless Project Initiation to Expansion

Resource Hub

Open-Source, Scale-Out, Cloud-Native NoSQL Database

Astra DB is scale-out NoSQL built on Apache Cassandra™. Handle any workload with zero downtime and zero lock-in at global scale.

We couldn't find any resource that matches your search.

No Resources Found

Get an overview how how vector search powers RAG and GenAI apps.

What is a Vector Database?

Learn how to build GenAI apps that use your own data.

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation?

Get Started with Astra DB Vector Search

Astra DB Vector Search Quickstart

Restworld is revolutionizing hospitality recruitment and job placement. This webinar will provide an understanding of how innovative use of vector search improved the accuracy of matching job seekers with ideal positions in the hospitality sector.

Strategies for Improving Relevance and Accuracy in Vector Search

We dive into the intricacies of utilizing SAI indexes with vector search.

Unlocking the Power of SAI Indexing and Vector Search

How will LLMs impact your business and application architecture strategy

Large Language Models (LLMs) for the Enterprise: ChatGPT and Beyond

How the largest AI workloads leverage real-time data and Cassandra.

How They Build This: Gen AI Products at Instacart, Shopify, and more

Creating 360 Customer view for customer retention and fraud detection with real-time data and AI.

How to Leverage Real-time Data and AI for Customer Insights with K2View

Learn how a production GenAI application uses vector search.

Path to Production: SkyPoint’s journey with LangChain and Astra DB

Get started or enhance your project with our product guides.

Guides

Learn about the latest AI news at DataStax through our Blog.

Blog

See us live at an industry event near you.

Events

Explore how our customers are gaining success with generative AI.