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layout: post
title:  "Partner Highlight: Using OpenSearch to set up a hybrid system that uses text and vector search"
authors:
  - pattijuric
date:   2023-02-24
categories:
  - partners
meta_keywords: "text and vector search, sentence transformers, semantic search, Searchium.ai"
meta_description: "Learn how to set up a hybrid search using OpenSearch and Hugging Face’s Sentence Transformers can help organizations improve search results."
---

On their own, text databases and vector search tools can add a lot of value to commercial workloads. [A recent blog post](https://towardsdatascience.com/text-search-vs-vector-search-better-together-3bd48eb6132a) by Noam Schwartz of OpenSearch Project Partner, [Searchium.ai](https://www.searchium.ai/), explains how these tools can deliver significant impact using a hybrid approach. In the blog, [“Text search vs. Vector search: Better together?](https://towardsdatascience.com/text-search-vs-vector-search-better-together-3bd48eb6132a),” Schwartz explores how combining text and vector search using OpenSearch and Sentence Transformers can help organizations improve their search results. Schwartz also presents an approach to reduced latency and improved operating costs by applying OpenSearch’s Associative Processing Unit (APU).