# Federate reference blog post & a quick "what's cooking"

**URL:** <https://community.siren.io/t/federate-reference-blog-post-a-quick-whats-cooking/42>\
**Category:** Siren Federate (Elasticsearch Plugin)\
**Created:** [April 11, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://community.siren.io/t/federate-reference-blog-post-a-quick-whats-cooking/42 "2019-04-11T01:23:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://community.siren.io/t/federate-reference-blog-post-a-quick-whats-cooking/42/1 "2019-04-11T01:23:10Z")

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This is the reference blog post for Federate, which includes a benchmark.

> **[Beyond 'perfect search': Introduction and benchmark of the Siren Federate engine](https://siren.io/beyond-perfect-search-introduction-and-benchmark-of-the-siren-federate-engine/)**
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> Beyond 'perfect search': Introduction and benchmark of the Siren Federate engine

Currently cooking in Federate:

- Caching layer. Extremely memory efficient caching. We have exciting preliminary results and expected release in Siren 10.3.
- Full join support.
- Connector for remote Elasticsearch clusters. Use remote ES as a datasource (also works with Ingestion) and allow joins across indexes (low scalability if they’re plain ES or efficient if they have the federate plugin).