Elastic named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025
Elastic has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025.
Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics engine built for speed, scale, and AI applications. It stores structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time, delivering fast hybrid and vector search and enabling AI-driven applications with high performance and relevance.
In its evaluation, Forrester noted:
“Elastic is a great choice for companies that want to build a scalable search experience and customize it in terms of experiences, apps, and deployment patterns.”
We believe Elastic was recognized as a Leader because:
- World’s most downloaded vector database: Elasticsearch is widely adopted for vector search, enabling you to build smarter AI applications.
- Hybrid search support: Elasticsearch combines sparse and dense vector embeddings with precise keyword search in a single hybrid query – enabling the creation of conversational agents that deliver data-grounded responses.
- Multimodal search: Elasticsearch can search across both structured and unstructured data sources, delivering accurate results regardless of data modality.
- Consistent, cost-effective performance at any scale: Elasticsearch scales from a single laptop to a hundred-node cluster, combining billion-scale vector search with cutting-edge quantization features to optimize resource usage and control costs.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Search, Tim Nelms, Sr Director Analyst, Stephen Emmott, Sr Director Analyst, Darin Stewart, VP Analyst, Jed Cawthorne, Director Analyst, 5, October, 2026.
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