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May 7, 2026
30x faster than Prometheus: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore
Elasticsearch now stores OTel metrics at 3.75 bytes per data point and queries them up to 30x faster than Prometheus. Here's how we rebuilt TSDS and ES|QL.
December 2, 2025
ES|QL in 9.2: Smart Lookup Joins and time-series support
Explore three separate updates to ES|QL in Elasticsearch 9.2: an enhanced LOOKUP JOIN for more expressive data correlation, the new TS command for time-series analysis, and the flexible INLINE STATS command for aggregation.
Storage wins for time-series data in Elasticsearch
Explore Elasticsearch's storage improvements for time series data and best practices for configuring a TSDS with storage efficiency.