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What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is an enterprise search tool from Elastic in Mountain View, California.

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Standard

$16.00

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Gold

$19.00

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Platinum

$22.00

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

How to create data views and gain insights on Elastic

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Setting Up a Search Box to Your Website or Application with Elasticsearch

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ChatGPT and Elasticsearch: OpenAI meets private data setup walkthrough

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Product Details

What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of addressing a growing number of use cases. As the heart of the Elastic Stack, it centrally stores data for fast search, fine‑tuned relevancy, and analytics that scale.

Elasticsearch now features generative AI search capabilities. Elasticsearch Relevance Engineâ„¢ (ESRE) powers generative AI solutions for private data sets with a vector database and machine learning models for semantic search that bring increased relevance to more search application developers.

ESRE combines AI with Elastic’s text search to give developers a full suite of sophisticated retrieval algorithms and the ability to integrate with large language models (LLMs). It is accessed through a single, unified API.

The Elasticsearch Relevance Engine’s configurable capabilities can be used to help improve relevance by:

  • Applying advanced relevance ranking features including BM25f, a critical component of hybrid search
  • Creating, storing, and searching dense embeddings using Elastic’s vector database
  • Processing text using a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks and models
  • Letting developers manage and use their own transformer models in Elastic for business specific context
  • Integrating with third-party transformer models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 and 4 via API to retrieve intuitive summarization of content based on the customer’s data stores consolidated within Elasticsearch deployments
  • Enabling ML-powered search without training or maintaining a model using Elastic’s out-of-the-box Learned Sparse Encoder model to deliver highly relevant, semantic search across a variety of domains
  • Combining sparse and dense retrieval using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), a hybrid ranking method that gives developers control to optimize their AI search engine to their unique mix of natural language and keyword query types
  • Integrating with third-party tooling such as LangChain to help build sophisticated data pipelines and generative AI applications

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What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Elasticsearch is an enterprise search tool from Elastic in Mountain View, California.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.8.

The most common users of Elasticsearch are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Elasticsearch has become an essential tool for users across various industries and domains. Its distributed architecture enables efficient searching of large datasets, even with partial text matches and across multiple fields. This capability makes it invaluable for tasks such as logging and analysis in cloud environments, where managing hundreds or thousands of servers is a necessity. Elasticsearch's fast and powerful search capabilities find application in B2B and B2C eCommerce websites, allowing users to search by various criteria like title, artist, genre, price range, and availability date. It serves as a reliable solution for tracking logs, incidents, analytics, and code quality. Additionally, Elasticsearch's ability to index and search large sets of data facilitates the creation of reporting dashboards. The product's built-in data replication features ensure data availability and easy retrieval while its scalability supports operational needs. It also enables tokenized free text search in audio transcripts as well as indexing and analyzing HTTP Request Response messages to detect security threats. With its wide range of use cases spanning from web search engines to scientific journals and complex data indexing, Elasticsearch proves to be an indispensable tool for organizations seeking efficient data storage solutions.

Highly Scalable Solution: Elasticsearch has been consistently praised by users for its highly scalable nature. It is able to handle storing and retrieving large numbers of documents, offering redundancy and distributed storage across multiple hosts with minimal configuration required.

Extensive Search Capabilities: Users highly praise Elasticsearch for its extensive search capabilities, especially in terms of full-text search. They find it easy to search and filter through millions of documents efficiently, even on large datasets, thanks to its fast search speeds.

Valuable Aggregations and Facets: Elasticsearch's support for aggregations and facets is highlighted as a valuable feature by users. They appreciate the ability to progressively add search criteria to refine their searches and uncover trends in their data.

Configuration Process: Users have encountered difficulties when implementing custom functions and have found the configuration process to be lacking. Some reviewers have mentioned challenges in integrating different elements of the program, incomplete documentation, and misleading forums.

Query Editor Limitations: Users have experienced issues with the query editor and noted that certain queries are not supported in the IntelliSense feature. Several users expressed frustration with inadequate documentation, hard-to-debug problems, and the complexities involved in tuning for ingress performance.

Learning Curve: Users have found the learning curve to be challenging, particularly for those with a background in SQL. Many reviewers mentioned a steep learning curve, extensive documentation requirements, and complexities related to mapping and data type conversion.

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Aaron Gussman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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We use ElasticSearch for multiple projects across our company, everything from development proof-of-concept efforts to large production systems supporting real-time data ingestion and multiple simultaneous users. ElasticSearch is our go-to data storage solution for anything requiring a responsive web interface. While it's full text search capabilities are its most often touted feature, we get more use out of its rapid search aggregations (formerly facets) and its scalability for large data sets.
  • Store large numbers of documents in a redundant, distributed fashion across multiple hosts. It handles sharding out of the box with a minimal amount of configuration.
  • Extensive search capabilities, particularly full text search. It also supports aggregations/facets and geospatial searching.
  • Native REST API is great for web applicaitons.
  • The online documentation is very difficult to use, both as a teaching tool and as a quick reference. The search syntax is arcane and not particularly "human friendly" and examples from the documentation are often insufficiently detailed to apply directly.
  • ElasticSearch is touted as "schemaless" when in fact mappings (aka schemas) are required for all but the most basic use cases.
I would say ElasticSearch is the best option on the market for web-driven document search.
  • ElasticSearch allows us to build beautiful, responsive web applications that allow users to rapidly filter large amounts of data to find the documents they are interested in.
ElasticSearch was easier to scale and faster than Mongo.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Neo4j
30
Developers
Maintaining ElasticSearch is not a full-time job. Each team has a member or members who help out with care and feeding.
  • Document Search
  • Data Science
  • Data Visualization
  • Built a race tracking website as part of a hackathon.
We're pretty heavily invested in ElasticSearch at this point, and there aren't any obvious negatives that would make us reconsider this decision.
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