Enterprise search with Elasticsearch: Power fast, relevant search across your organization

Elasticsearch enables modern enterprise search, helping your teams, customers, and applications find the right information instantly, no matter where it lives. Unify data across systems, deliver highly relevant results, and build scalable search experiences all on a distributed platform designed for real-time performance.

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Elasticsearch transforms how organizations search by indexing and retrieving data across all sources,structured and unstructured, in real time. Elasticsearch indexes and retrieves relevant matches with precision and speed.

  • Unified enterprise search across all data

    Connect Elasticsearch to your data sources and create a single search layer across your organization from documents to applications.

  • Real-time, highly relevant results

    Deliver fast results with advanced full-text search and relevance scoring (BM25), ensuring users find exactly what they need.

  • Built for scale

    Search across billions of documents with consistent millisecond performance using Elasticsearch’s distributed architecture.

  • Secure and permission-aware

    Integrate with your existing access controls to ensure users only see what they’re allowed to see.

Enterprise search use cases powered by Elasticsearch

Enable teams to instantly find internal documents, wikis, and knowledge across all systems in one place.

Elasticsearch converts your data into a fast, scalable search engine optimized for enterprise use.

  • Ingest

    Collect data from multiple sources, including cloud apps, databases, and file systems.

  • Index

    Organize data into an inverted index for lightning-fast retrieval.

  • Query across all data using powerful APIs and flexible query DSL.

  • Retrieve

    Return relevant, ranked results in milliseconds.

Advanced features that make Elastic unbeatable

Unify your data, improve relevance, and deliver fast, scalable enterprise search across your entire organization.

  • Elasticsearch bridges keyword search, contextual semantics, and vector embeddings in one platform, enabling truly relevant results even when queries don’t directly match text.

  • Transform data with ES|QL

    Use our piped query language to search, filter, and transform text data in a single expression. ES|QL simplifies complex lookups and provides a more intuitive way to process results at query time.

  • Rich text analysis

    Customizable analyzers break text into meaningful tokens, support stemming, synonyms, and stop‑word filtering, enabling deeper understanding than simple search.

  • Flexible query DSL

    Use powerful full‑text queries like match, multi_match, match_phrase, and more to express nuanced user intent.

  • Aggregations and filtering

    Build faceted search experiences with real-time filters, counts, and insights alongside text search results.

  • Search by location, map distances, and geofence queries without sacrificing text relevance.

Customer success highlights

  • Customer spotlight

    Yatego: Scaled product text search for five million products and delivered search results 100× faster than previous solutions

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    LG CNS: Combined full‑text and hybrid search to boost search accuracy from 75% to 95% and reduce response times

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    Shopify: Provides industry-leading support services and documentation using Elastic as a powerful search engine

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    Cypris: Leveraged hybrid search for richer, context‑aware search results beyond keyword matches

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    Docusign: Uses Elasticsearch to search billions of documents, enabling fast access to agreements across platforms

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    Stack Overflow: Uses Elastic to deliver fast, relevant search across a large corpus of technical knowledge and Q&A content

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