Elastic Recognized as a Leader in 2025 Cognitive Search Evaluation

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave™ Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025 report, with Elasticsearch receiving the highest possible scores in eight criteria, including relevancy.

Elasticsearch is a widely deployed open-source document and vector database, offering developers a powerful search and analytics engine with the speed and scale needed for generative AI applications. Capable of handling structured, unstructured and vector data in real time, developers can perform cross-cluster searches to execute a single query across one or multiple remote clusters, with flexible deployment options both in the cloud and on-premises. Elasticsearch delivers fast hybrid and semantic search while powering AI applications with high performance, accuracy, and relevance.

“Elastic’s outstanding capabilities in enabling deep and comprehensive refinement of relevancy and results delivery let developers push their imaginations in terms of building search experiences,” Forrester principal analyst Rowan Curran wrote in the report. “With outstanding capabilities for scale and efficiency as well as a varied set of hosting options, Elastic is flexible both in its core technology and in its deployment options.”

“Search requires flexibility and scale to parse trillions of points of data quickly to deliver relevant answers at the speed of a query,” said Steve Kearns, general manager of Search at Elastic. “We believe the position of the Elasticsearch Platform as a Leader reflects the continual innovation being poured into the product to help organizations build generative AI and agentic applications on top of private enterprise data, leveraging world-class search and relevance.”

Additional Resources

• Learn more about the Elasticsearch Platform and our position in the Forrester Wave here.
• Get started with the Elasticsearch Platform today to launch grounded generative AI applications, upgrade relevance, ship faster with serverless, and more. Click here to learn more.

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Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, integrates its deep expertise in search technology with artificial intelligence to help everyone transform all of their data into answers, actions, and outcomes. Elastic's Search AI Platform — the foundation for its search, observability, and security solutions — is used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Learn more at elastic.co.

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