Technology answer

FAST ESP

34

companies run it, <0.01% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 252 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, <0.01%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

No published series

34 companies is under the publication floor of 1,000, and the fixed panel anchored at 31 Dec 2020 carries 5 of them. A monthly line drawn off that many observations would be noise at the same weight as a line off millions, so this page states the count and its date and publishes no series.

First discovered 28 Oct 2019, last discovered 10 Sept 2026.

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 34each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator

Companies

Share

companies in the index

54,527,857

<0.01%

companies running anything in Databases and Data Engineering

26,047,109

<0.01%

companies running anything in Search platforms

19,904

0.17%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, FAST ESP is rank 7 of 10 technologies in Search platforms.

Open as a segment

34 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

A self-hosted enterprise search platform originally from FAST, later by Microsoft.

FAST ESP provides indexing and search across websites and enterprise content repositories. It is deployed on-premises by enterprises needing large-scale site and intranet search.

Kindproduct

VendorMicrosoft, microsoft.com

PathData, Analytics and AI > Databases and Data Engineering > Search platforms

Slugfast-esp

Deploymentself-hosted

Pricingquote based, enterprise

Open sourceno

First discovered2019-10-28

Last discovered2026-09-10

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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Subcategory answerSearch platformsCompanies running anything in Search platforms, 19,904 of 54,527,857 in the index, and the technologies ranked in it.Category answerDatabases and Data EngineeringThe category above this one, with its subcategories and the companies in each.CatalogueAll 8,177 technologiesRanked by the companies running them, with the publication gate named and the long tail drawn.