OpenSearch Now Available On Watsonx.Data For Enterprise Search And AI Retrieval
IBM, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
IBM is announcing OpenSearch on watsonx.data, bringing OpenSearch-an open-source search and analytics engine with more than 700 million downloads-directly into IBM's hybrid data platform for AI.
OpenSearch is an open-source, Apache 2.0-licensed distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. Hosted by the Linux Foundation and developed by a broad open-source community, the project continues to evolve through contributions from many organizations, including significant ongoing work from IBM.
With OpenSearch integrated into watsonx.data, organizations can power enterprise search experiences, analytics workflows and AI applications using a unified and scalable retrieval engine.