Berlin Buzzwords 2026

Ankit Jain

Ankit Jain is a Software Engineer on the Amazon OpenSearch Service team, leading performance and scalability initiatives for search infrastructure. He is an active maintainer and committer for the Apache Lucene and OpenSearch projects, with hands-on experience operating large-scale OpenSearch deployments and solving complex production performance challenges.


Company/Organisation:

Amazon


Session

06-09
10:00
40min
From Inverted Index to Columnar Vectorized Execution Search
Ankit Jain

Search engines are converging with analytical data systems. This talk explores how columnar data layouts, SIMD-accelerated execution, and bulk-oriented processing are reshaping search internals. We examine where traditional models fall short and how hardware-aware techniques from analytics engines are defining the next search infrastructure.

Kesselhaus