My team is small, consisting of about four or five people. On Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service), only two of us work with it, but I am the one who uses it daily. So far, I have not performed any maintenance. Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) focuses on exact keyword matching. This means they do not address semantic similarity well. For example, if I use a word and then use another word with the same meaning in a sentence but not a synonym or similar word, Elastic cannot understand this semantic similarity, which is important for my chatbots. This is why I was using vector databases, as they focus on semantic similarity of words and tokens, whereas Elastic looks for exact word representation. The team mentioned that hybrid search is an option. I have my own vector database that I use daily as a personal solution, and I could give hybrid search a chance, but I have not tried it yet. I would rate my overall experience as seven out of ten. Two points are deducted for the pricing, which was higher than my expectations. The pricing has been significant over the last two months and was considerably more than I anticipated. My overall review rating for this service is nine out of ten.
