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

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.