Elasticsearch Search AI Platform

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) develops Elasticsearch, a search and AI platform that combines keyword, vector and hybrid search. The press release announcing its 2026 Gartner placement carries a San Francisco dateline, and Elastic says more than 75% of the Fortune 100 use its technology.

The platform offers hybrid retrieval with reciprocal rank fusion, document-level security, Agent Builder, semantic_text auto-embedding at ingest and Jina AI models. It runs on Elastic Cloud Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted or self-managed, including on-premise and air-gapped environments. Featured customers include Docusign, PepsiCo, UOL, Tavily and Apna.

• Hybrid retrieval: keyword, vector and reciprocal rank fusion in one engine.
• Agent Builder: tools for building AI agents on top of indexed data.
• Document-level security: role-based access control applied to search results.
• Inference models: Jina AI models and managed GPU inference.
• Semantic ingest: semantic_text field embeds content automatically at ingestion.
• Connectors: prebuilt connectors, web crawler and ingest APIs.

A Vietnamese marketplace can add hybrid semantic product search. A bank can build a RAG assistant over policy documents with document-level security. A telecom operator can search support knowledge across regions with an air-gapped deployment.

Gartner placed Elastic as a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Search, positioned highest for Ability to Execute. Elasticsearch is described as trusted by about 18,000 organizations. Self-managed, serverless and air-gapped options fit regulated environments. Open-source Elasticsearch and Kibana under AGPL lower the entry barrier.

Analysts now track enterprise AI search as a distinct category, and vector search with RAG is becoming a standard layer for agents and assistants. Vietnamese e-commerce, banking and telecom firms that already run Elasticsearch for logs or site search can extend it to semantic and generative use cases.

Listed on NYSE as ESTC; trademark holder named as Elasticsearch B.V. Press release dateline San Francisco. Acquired Jina AI in October 2025 per the 2026 press release. Founding year not stated on fetched pages.