Elastic Named a Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide General-Purpose Knowledge Discovery

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI company, has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide General-Purpose Knowledge Discovery 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53011225, November 2025). The IDC MarketScape report recognizes Elasticsearch as a widely deployed open source document and vector database, offering developers a powerful search and analytics engine with the speed and scale needed for creating generative AI and other applications.

Built for relevance at scale, Elasticsearch is the ideal platform for agentic AI as it provides developers with the essential building blocks for context engineering. It is the world’s most downloaded vector database, and delivers fast semantic and hybrid search, GPU-accelerated inference-as-a-service, native MCP interfaces, and more. It provides the powerful primitives needed to manage all data — both structured and unstructured — and obtain relevant context, as well as integrated observability, access controls and the extensibility to customize.

“Elastic brings together the power of search, observability, and security to give teams the visibility and agility they need to innovate and scale confidently,” said Amy Machado, senior research manager at IDC. “The platform’s key strength is its flexibility, integrating hybrid search that unifies lexical, vector, and semantic understanding to enable organizations to build relevant, real-time generative AI experiences — making it a compelling option for those looking to simplify the developer experience and build and customize search pipelines seamlessly.”

Elastic's position as a Leader is underpinned by several key differentiators:

• Proven business impact: Enterprises, including the National Health Service and Comcast, rely on Elastic to drive measurable outcomes, including intelligent document management and multimodal search at scale.
• Leadership in relevance: Elastic’s hybrid, semantic, and reranking models help ensure that AI systems are grounded in relevant, accurate context — a concept Elastic pioneered a decade ago.
• Developer-empowered innovation: Elastic’s open APIs, Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), and tools like Semantic_Text give organizations the flexibility to adapt search and AI experiences to unique needs.
• Innovation ecosystem: With more than 5.5 billion Elasticsearch downloads and a large open source community, Elastic continues to empower developers and enterprises alike to build AI-native, search-powered applications.
• Visionary strategy and ecosystem partnerships: Elastic integrates seamlessly with first- and third-party LLMs, major cloud providers, and enterprise systems. That enables customers to future-proof AI and search investments while maintaining flexibility and control.
• Unified data platform: Elastic combines search, observability, and security in a single data platform, helping organizations eliminate silos, reduce costs, and achieve faster time-to-insight.

The IDC MarketScape recognition follows Elastic’s announcement of Agent Builder, a conversational and API interface that makes it simple for developers to build custom AI agents on company data within minutes.

“Our mission is to help every organization unlock the full potential of their data, connecting content, context, and creativity through search and generative AI,” said Steve Kearns, general manager of Search at Elastic. “With innovations like Agent Builder, native Elastic Inference Service, and industry-leading embedding and reranking models through our recent acquisition of Jina.AI, we’re redefining what’s possible in enterprise knowledge discovery.“

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Elastic and our position in IDC MarketScape for Worldwide General-Purpose Knowledge Discovery here.

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About Elastic

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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