Elasticsearch: The search database for AI

See firsthand the innovations driving Elasticsearch forward. The new Columnar Mode stores each field once for inverted index, doc values, and source in columnar format. Federated search queries external sources as if they were a local index. With other efficiencies like DiskBBQ vector quantization, these deliver major storage savings, faster ingestion, and fast analytical queries, closing the gap with purpose-built data stores while keeping the search heritage developers rely on. This session covers the why, the wins, and where the platform is headed. If you build on Elasticsearch, this is where it's going.