How is Elastic playing a role in this space?

Now, what role does Elastic play here? There are multiple ways you can leverage Elastic – including Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a distributed and highly scalable data store. Its specialty is information retrieval. It’s one thing to run the preceding code in a notebook – it’s another to make it operational at scale and to be accessed by hundreds, thousands, or millions of users.

Furthermore, training can be long as it requires the algorithm to be able to access a large amount of data, indexed for fast access, at scale. There are very few data stores that are versatile enough to be able to cope with structured and unstructured data at the same time, manage a wide range of data types, and be scalable for ingestion and search.

Elasticsearch is a unique choice, not only because of its technical attributes but also because of its vibrant community and large adoption. As mentioned earlier, the field of AI-based...