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Elastic Search

byElastic
in
4.6
Market Presence: Enterprise AI Search, Search and Product Discovery

Overview

Product Information on Elastic Search

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Elastic Search?

Elastic Search is a software that enables full-text search, structured search, and analytics across diverse data types. It is designed to index, search, and analyze large volumes of data quickly and in near real time. The software supports a distributed architecture for handling data across multiple servers and provides RESTful APIs for integration with other applications. Elastic Search addresses business needs such as log and event data analysis, enterprise search, and operational monitoring by supporting scalable queries, aggregation, filtering, and data visualization. Its schema-free design allows for flexible data ingestion from various sources, making it suitable for varied use cases including search engines, application performance monitoring, and security analytics.

Elastic Search Pricing

Elastic Search software uses a tiered pricing model that includes both free and paid subscription options. The software is available under an open-source license with additional features available in paid plans, structured by resource consumption, functionality, and support levels. Pricing may vary based on deployment choices such as cloud or self-managed environments.

Overall experience with Elastic Search

Senior Research Engineer
3B - 10B USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Best in class text search and very strong vector capabilities”

5.0
Feb 6, 2025
The product has a best in class text search and a very strong vector database. Enterprise support and account managers have been top notch.
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CRITICAL

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Elastic enables organizations to securely harness search-powered AI so anyone can find the answers they need in real-time using all their data, at scale. By integrating AI with search technology, it facilitates the discovery of actionable insights from large volumes of both structured and unstructured data, addressing the need for real-time, scalable data processing. Our Elasticsearch Platform delivers search-powered AI for observability, security and search. Companies can now solve real-time business problems and achieve better business outcomes by taking advantage of massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, securing and protecting private information more effectively, and optimizing infrastructure and talent resources more efficiently. Elastic’s complete, easy-to-use cloud-based platform offers solutions in search, security, and observability, aimed at aiding businesses in leveraging AI technology securely and effectively.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2012
Head office location
Mountain View, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Annual Revenue
1B-3B USD
Website
http://www.elastic.co

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Key Insights

A Snapshot of What Matters - Based on Validated User Reviews

Reviewer Insights for: Elastic Search
Performance of Elastic Search Across Market Features

Elastic Search Likes & Dislikes

Like

- Text search - Technical vision and constant improvements for vector search - Support

Like

i like how the ai search helps and integration with LLM and private data.

Like

a lot of standard state of the art features, built in embedding models

Dislike

The product is very feature-rich and it's not always obvious which features are best for certain use cases.

Dislike

none at the moment.

Dislike

cost above average feature discovery could be better some unpolished features

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Elastic Search Reviews and Ratings

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4.6

(9 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
56%
4 Star
44%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
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Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.8

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  • Senior Research Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Best in class text search and very strong vector capabilities

    5.0
    Feb 6, 2025
    The product has a best in class text search and a very strong vector database. Enterprise support and account managers have been top notch.
  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Elastic's Innovative AI Enhancements Promise Bright Future

    4.0
    Nov 26, 2024
    I really like the improvements that elastic is working on. hope to see at lot in future.
  • Head of Intranet, IT-PMO and IT Innovatio
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Navigating the Balance between Cutting-Edge Tech and Costs

    4.0
    Nov 14, 2024
    Easy to use, good community, up to date technology, sharing knowledge actively, costs above average
  • Senior Software Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    GenAI Feature Enhancement: A Personal Experience

    5.0
    Nov 26, 2024
    It was a nice experience so far. Planning to use the GenAI feature alongside the existing solution.
  • Product Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Exploring 5 Years of Use with Elastic: A Retrospective

    4.0
    Nov 26, 2024
    worked with elastic for the last 5 years, and always worked as expected
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