# Elasticsearch alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 481 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Elasticsearch holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/elasticsearch/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- MongoDB: 143
- Qdrant: 68
- pgvector: 67
- Pinecone: 65
- Amazon DynamoDB: 22
- Weaviate: 15

## Vector databases

**Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Elasticsearch.

- pgvector: first choice in 39 of those 83
- Qdrant: first choice in 30 of those 83
- Pinecone: first choice in 19 of those 83
- Chroma: first choice in 5 of those 83
- Weaviate: first choice in 4 of those 83
- ChromaDB: first choice in 1 of those 83
- Milvus: first choice in 1 of those 83
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search: first choice in 1 of those 83

**Mid-market**: 78 of 84 answers did not name Elasticsearch (Elasticsearch is #6 of 11 at 2%).

- Qdrant: first choice in 23 of those 78
- pgvector: first choice in 21 of those 78
- Pinecone: first choice in 16 of those 78
- Weaviate: first choice in 4 of those 78
- Milvus: first choice in 1 of those 78
- Milvus / Zilliz Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 78

**Enterprise**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Elasticsearch (Elasticsearch is #10 of 13 at 0%).

- Pinecone: first choice in 30 of those 73
- Qdrant: first choice in 15 of those 73
- Weaviate: first choice in 7 of those 73
- pgvector: first choice in 7 of those 73
- Milvus: first choice in 5 of those 73
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Elastic: first choice in 1 of those 73
- Elasticsearch / OpenSearch: first choice in 1 of those 73

## NoSQL databases

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Elasticsearch.

- MongoDB: first choice in 59 of those 84
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 6 of those 84
- Amazon DynamoDB: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Google Cloud Firestore: first choice in 4 of those 84
- MySQL: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Firebase: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Redis: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Elasticsearch (Elasticsearch is #13 of 14 at 0%).

- MongoDB: first choice in 43 of those 79
- Amazon DynamoDB: first choice in 7 of those 79
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Apache Cassandra: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Apache CouchDB: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Atlas: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Azure Cosmos DB: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Couchbase: first choice in 1 of those 79

**Enterprise**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Elasticsearch.

- MongoDB: first choice in 41 of those 84
- Amazon DynamoDB: first choice in 10 of those 84
- Azure Cosmos DB: first choice in 8 of those 84
- Apache Cassandra: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Couchbase: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Aerospike: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Oracle NoSQL Database: first choice in 2 of those 84
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 1 of those 84

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