ElasticSearch is fine. If your dataset isn't too big you aren't going to hit shard and memory limits and if you do chances are you are already in a large enough organisation that you'll have the manpower to do the required maintenance. It's not rocket science.

> This seems to be coming from the “we must make ElasticSearch AI-compatible” department more than anything.

I don't see the problem in that. It'd be great to have agentic capabilities embedded into Kibana and ES as long as it's not user hostile.