# Create elastic_vector_search.ElasticKnnSearch class
This extends `langchain/vectorstores/elastic_vector_search.py` by adding
a new class `ElasticKnnSearch`
Features:
- Allow creating an index with the `dense_vector` mapping compataible
with kNN search
- Store embeddings in index for use with kNN search (correct mapping
creates HNSW data structure)
- Perform approximate kNN search
- Perform hybrid BM25 (`query{}`) + kNN (`knn{}`) search
- perform knn search by either providing a `query_vector` or passing a
hosted `model_id` to use query_vector_builder to automatically generate
a query_vector at search time
Connection options
- Using `cloud_id` from Elastic Cloud
- Passing elasticsearch client object
search options
- query
- k
- query_vector
- model_id
- size
- source
- knn_boost (hybrid search)
- query_boost (hybrid search)
- fields
This also adds examples to
`docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/elasticsearch.ipynb`
Fixes # [5346](https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/issues/5346)
cc: @dev2049
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Co-authored-by: Dev 2049 <dev.dev2049@gmail.com>
# Docs: improvements in the `retrievers/examples/` notebooks
Its primary purpose is to make the Jupyter notebook examples
**consistent** and more suitable for first-time viewers.
- add links to the integration source (if applicable) with a short
description of this source;
- removed `_retriever` suffix from the file names (where it existed) for
consistency;
- removed ` retriever` from the notebook title (where it existed) for
consistency;
- added code to install necessary Python package(s);
- added code to set up the necessary API Key.
- very small fixes in notebooks from other folders (for consistency):
- docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/elasticsearch.ipynb
- docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/pinecone.ipynb
- docs/modules/models/llms/integrations/cohere.ipynb
- fixed misspelling in langchain/retrievers/time_weighted_retriever.py
comment (sorry, about this change in a .py file )
## Who can review
@dev2049
- Added links to the vectorstore providers
- Added installation code (it is not clear that we have to go to the
`LangChan Ecosystem` page to get installation instructions.)
