How long does a Vespa migration typically take?

It depends on the complexity of your current setup — typically ranging from a few weeks for simpler environments to several months for more complex enterprise stacks.

Should we choose self-hosted Vespa or Vespa Cloud?

We analyze your compliance requirements, infrastructure preferences, internal capabilities, and cost considerations to recommend the best fit for your business.

Will migration disrupt our existing services?

Our migration process is designed to minimize disruption, using parallel queries, phased rollout, and rollback strategies.

How do you handle unexpected issues during migration?

We proactively identify risks during planning and continuously monitor during migration, ensuring quick resolution and minimal disruption.

Can we proceed with migration without an audit?

Yes. Our direct migration includes essential audit elements. However, starting with a full audit offers greater clarity, shorter overall timelines, and deeper strategic insights.

Official Vespa.ai Partner

Structured Vespa migration for production search systems

We plan, validate, benchmark, and cut over production search stacks to Vespa with controlled rollout, rollback discipline, and post-launch support.

Start with a Vespa audit

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Migration paths

Choose the migration path that fits your current stack.

If your source platform is not listed here, we can still map the right migration plan for your architecture.

Migrate From Elasticsearch

A structured path from Elasticsearch to Vespa with schema planning, query parity, benchmarking, and controlled cutover.

Migrate From OpenSearch

Evaluate operational differences, compatibility constraints, and the right transition approach for OpenSearch-based systems.

Migrate From Apache Solr

Move from legacy Solr-based search stacks to a Vespa architecture built for modern retrieval and ranking workloads.

Need the executive case for why teams migrate in the first place? Read the migration decision page.

Need a custom migration path? Start with a Vespa audit or discuss your migration path directly.

Need technical proof before committing? Run a focused Retrieval PoC first.

Migration process

The delivery program for a production migration

This page owns the operational detail: planning, proof, benchmarking, rollout, and post-launch support.

Precision Planning

Deep analysis of your data, queries, and infrastructure to align the migration with your business goals.

Proof of Concept

Establish a working Vespa prototype early on, ensuring key functionality is validated before larger commitments.

Benchmarking & Optimization

Tune Vespa for relevance, scale, and latency, benchmark against your current system, and assess results against agreed acceptance criteria and trade-offs.

Seamless Transition

Plan a controlled transition with parallel query handling, rollback plans, and cutover checks aligned to your availability requirements.

Continuous Monitoring

After go-live, we monitor, support, and continuously improve — Vespa should feel like an upgrade, not just a move.

Start with audit

Maximize migration success with a Vespa.ai audit.

Begin with a comprehensive audit to identify optimization opportunities, reduce migration risks, and create a clear roadmap tailored to your specific needs. Before any migration, we benchmark self-hosted vs Vespa Cloud economics.

Learn about the Vespa readiness audit

Learn more in our Vespa Cloud vs Self-Hosted guide.

Delivery track record

Built for controlled migration delivery

This is not generic platform consulting. The engagement is built around production migration risk, not slideware.

AI and ML search depth

Our team brings over a decade of experience designing, building, and scaling AI/ML-powered search and discovery systems across diverse industries and use cases.

Real-world Vespa expertise

Real-world Vespa expertise within our team — rarely seen elsewhere — with hands-on experience across both self-hosted and cloud-based deployments.

Delivering since 2023

Actively delivering Vespa-based search solutions in production since 2023.

FAQ

Vespa Migration FAQs

Related resources

Case study

Splore AI: Elasticsearch to Vespa

A production migration supporting semantic and hybrid retrieval, ML ranking, and enterprise search at scale.

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Case study

CuratedAI: Hybrid Multilingual Legal Retrieval

How Searchplex helped CuratedAI move from semantic-only search to production hybrid multilingual retrieval on Vespa.

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Ways of working

Work with us the way that suits your team

Either way, you own the result, and the aim is a team that can run it without us.

Project delivery

Searchplex delivers the project

Our engineers handle day-to-day delivery within Searchplex. We meet regularly with your business and leadership stakeholders to share progress and agree on key decisions.

Embedded

Specialists paired with your engineers

We lead the retrieval work inside your team and processes, so the expertise stays with you.

Ready to migrate

Need a migration partner who can deliver it in production?

Speak directly with a Vespa architect about scoping, rollout risk, benchmarking, and the right starting point for your stack.

Vespa migration engagement — planning, proof of concept, cutover strategy, rollback discipline, and post-launch support.

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