MemetikEdition 2026-09

Vendors / Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch

Named in 23 of 50 AI answers across 1 category in September 2026. Best position: Vector databases, 46% answer share, ranked #7, named first in 0%.

46%

Best share Vector databases

What Elasticsearch is

Elasticsearch is a platform from Elastic for people building search and vector database applications, monitoring applications and infrastructure, and protecting against cyber threats. It is available as a hosted, serverless or self-managed product, with resource-based, usage-based and licence-based pricing respectively.

It runs on a distributed search and vector database with an analytics engine. Elasticsearch combines full-text and semantic search to return query results and supports real-time data analysis. RESTful APIs provide access to data, visualisations and deployments.

By category

First edition

CategoryRankAnswer shareNamed firstModelsΔ
Vector databasesAI infra#7 of 160%GPT-5.6 Sol, ChatGPT, GPT-5.6 Luna, Claude Opus 5, Claude, Claude Fable 5, Gemini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity, Sonar Reasoning Pronew

What the models said

“If your RAG application relies heavily on structured text filters, exact matches, and semantic search, Elasticsearch's hybrid search is best-in-class.”

“Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and Weaviate are both called out as strongest for hybrid BM25 + vector work pgvector can do hybrid via Postgres full-text search, but it's more assembly required.”

“Elasticsearch / OpenSearch Recommended when hybrid search requirements are primary and you already rely on Elasticsearch for text search.”

“The main contenders right now are pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma, and LanceDB, plus platforms like Redis, Elasticsearch, and Vespa.”

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