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Amazon ElastiCache Adds Real-Time Full-Text, Exact-Match, and Numeric Range Search

New ElastiCache features allow multi-criteria search types directly in-memory, supporting complex queries with high throughput and low latency.

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Retrospective edition: 2026-05-06. Source published: 2026-05-06. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

Users can combine full-text search with prefix, suffix, and fuzzy matching alongside exact-match and numeric range filters in a single query to efficiently navigate terabytes of changing data. This supports use cases like product discovery, session lookup, transaction filtering, and leaderboards with latency as low as microseconds.

Available globally on Valkey 9.0+, the new search capabilities eliminate the need for separate dedicated search services, enabling rapid, real-time queries on dynamic datasets common in e-commerce, gaming, and financial applications.

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Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search ↗

Source published 2026-05-06. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.