TLDR: Elastic, the Search AI Company, has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™ Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025 report. Its Elasticsearch platform received the highest possible scores in eight criteria, including relevancy, underscoring its pivotal role in powering generative AI applications with advanced search and analytics capabilities.
SAN FRANCISCO – October 3, 2025 – Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), widely known as the Search AI Company, has achieved a significant milestone by being named a leader in The Forrester Wave™ Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025 report. This recognition highlights the robust capabilities of its Elasticsearch platform, which garnered the highest possible scores in eight distinct criteria, most notably in relevancy.
Elasticsearch, a widely deployed open-source document and vector database, is lauded for providing developers with a powerful search and analytics engine. Its speed and scale are particularly crucial for the demands of generative AI applications. The platform demonstrates exceptional versatility, capable of handling structured, unstructured, and vector data in real-time. This enables developers to execute cross-cluster searches, performing a single query across multiple remote clusters, with flexible deployment options spanning both cloud and on-premises environments.
Forrester’s principal analyst, Rowan Curran, praised Elastic’s offerings in the report, stating, “Elastic’s outstanding capabilities in enabling deep and comprehensive refinement of relevancy and results delivery let developers push their imaginations in terms of building search experiences.” Curran further added, “With outstanding capabilities for scale and efficiency as well as a varied set of hosting options, Elastic is flexible both in its core technology and in its deployment options.”
Elasticsearch is instrumental in delivering fast hybrid and semantic search, while simultaneously powering AI applications with high performance, accuracy, and relevance. Steve Kearns, general manager of Search at Elastic, commented on the achievement, saying, “Search requires flexibility and scale to parse trillions of points of data quickly to deliver relevant answers at the speed of a query.” He further expressed, “We believe the position of the Elasticsearch Platform as a Leader reflects the continual innovation being poured into the product to help organizations build generative AI and agentic applications on top of private enterprise data, leveraging world-class search and relevance.”
Also Read:
- Elastic Secures Leader Position in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
- Quantum Metric Honored with ISG Software Innovation Award for Pioneering Generative AI in Digital Analytics
This leadership position in the Forrester Wave report solidifies Elastic’s commitment to innovation in the cognitive search space, particularly as it intersects with the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence.
