Nik Everett

Principal Software Engineer II

About the author

Nik Everett is an Elasticsearch Engineer based in North Carolina. Before joining Elastic, Nik worked for the Wikimedia Foundation building on site search for Wikipedia with Elasticsearch.

Author's articles

ES|QL

January 19, 2026

Faster ES|QL stats with Swiss-style hash tables

How Swiss-inspired hashing and SIMD-friendly design deliver consistent, measurable speedups in Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL).

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By: Chris Hegarty, Matthew Alp and Nik Everett

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