Uber and OpenSearch - semantic search gains drive enterprise momentum

One year ago, OpenSearch went looking for independence – and found something much more valuable. Under vendor-neutral governance, the project has attracted over 3,300 contributors, hit a billion downloads, and is now powering everything from Uber's revenue-driving semantic search to SAP's massive observability infrastructure.

Two conversations at the Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam – with Pallavi Priyadarshini, Head of Engineering for Search at the OpenSearch Software Foundation, and Yupeng Fu, Senior Staff Engineer at Uber – show how community-driven innovation is creating enterprise-ready alternatives to proprietary platforms.

Gaining momentum under Linux Foundation governance

The transformation runs deeper than the download numbers suggest. For Priyadarshini, the shift to vendor-neutral governance has fundamentally changed how the project operates and who participates. She explains:

People see us as a vendor neutral project, now not controlled by any one company. That has led to tremendous community growth.

The contributor base spans large enterprises ...