We use it for locating and retrieving documents, particularly in scenarios where the data lacks a predefined structure. These documents may encompass various types of information, such as logs or other records.
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A powerful and scalable search and analytics engine ensuring easy deployment, schema-less document storage, extensive documentation, and strong community support
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It is highly valuable because of its simplicity in maintenance, where most tasks are handled for you, and it offers a plethora of built-in features.
What needs improvement?
Currently, their focus seems to be on expanding integrations and introducing more external tools, somewhat diverging from enhancing the core product. While integrating with tools like agents for ingesting data from sources like firewalls is valuable, I believe prioritizing improvements to the core product would be more beneficial. For instance, the development of a multi-step query engine could significantly enhance user experience. The ability to execute queries, receive results, and then perform subsequent queries based on those results is a fundamental feature that, while achievable through code, seems to be lacking as a built-in capability. While they possess a robust infrastructure, the current upgrade process isn't seamless and can result in downtime. As a customer, this can be frustrating, especially when there are methods like replicating to a new instance, performing the upgrade, and then transitioning back, which could potentially minimize downtime. This is crucial in a cloud service where ensuring availability is paramount, considering the significant investment in such services.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with it for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It offers good stability capabilities.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable tool, but it's not impressive. The challenge arises when scaling out becomes prohibitively expensive. Instead of offering end-users the flexibility to specify the number of instances, there's a tendency to provide preconfigured packages. This approach may not be ideal, particularly for those seeking smaller scale-ups.
How are customer service and support?
Their documentation is commendable as it provides a clear understanding of their offerings. Also, the accessibility to their support further enhances user-friendliness, making it a straightforward and user-friendly experience. While it may be slow, their competence in what they do is evident. I would rate it eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
Setting up the system initially is quite straightforward, but when it comes to upgrades, the process becomes more challenging. It was an in-house deployment. The primary focus is on designing the solution, considering factors like the importance of replication, cluster size, speed, and disk space. I appreciate their approach of guiding you through these considerations, making it easier to grasp the bigger picture. This initial design phase is a complex but crucial step. Once that's sorted, the subsequent steps are relatively straightforward—just a few clicks to establish the baseline. If you're working on a standard deployment, it's a hassle-free process.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps. It begins as quite affordable and maintains affordability for a while. However, there's a turning point where it transitions from being reasonably priced to becoming notably expensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We've explored a few alternatives, but I believe Elasticsearch, particularly with Elastic and Elastic Cloud, stands out as the current industry standard. Opting for a widely used platform is advantageous due to the larger community it attracts. A substantial user base means more people to consult, numerous information sources, and a wealth of case studies. While there are smaller, medium, and even large alternatives, having around eighty percent of the community share provides a significant pool of expertise and resources to tap into.
What other advice do I have?
The main reason we opted for it is because the installation is straightforward, and maintenance is made easy as they handle that aspect for you. The extensive knowledge base offers substantial assistance, making it less reliant on individual expertise. I believe it's a solid product, especially for beginners. While it's not free, it's well-suited for more complex tasks. Keep in mind that for intricate functionalities, you might need to develop and create tools beyond what Elastic Cloud offers. If you're considering a cloud-based solution for schema-less documents, Elasticsearch is a solid choice. On the other hand, if you have the resources to handle on-premises installation, I would recommend it for companies with the capability to manage the deployment themselves. Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.
Very great tool
What do you like best about the product?
ELK Stack is awesome and filebeat is great
What do you dislike about the product?
The exporter support for filebeat and other logstash is limited
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To enhance telemetry data retrieval and processing
So far good but looking for more innovation.
What do you like best about the product?
Being a database internal engineer and Query execution/compilation enthusiast, Elastic Query DSL's simplicity encapsulates all the complexity under the hood.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still the storage under the hood has to solve the problem of low window streaming search problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiple place we have used it for index reference storage in big data, identity cache storage in cloud, Merge and update types of problem in big data for natural key reference, Partial search in e-commerce like flipkart
Review for Enterprise Elastic Search as a User
What do you like best about the product?
It has great user interface. Customization available as per search criteria. Robust search capability including full text search, filtering. Scale with growing user data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve for small organisation. Pricing and resource intensive for small companies. Limited offline access. Complex search configuration requires technical expertise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have built a universal search for our lifestyle product superapp. One search to cater multiple product full text search and auto-complete.
Elastic search provides a unified search interface which is helpfull in client onbaording
What do you like best about the product?
I found Elastic Search to be a reliable tool and its user friendly interface reduces the learning curve for new users and increases the productivity to a great extent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its Should be more cost effective and maintaince should also be low and if able to provide more security, data privacy and compliance then it can be a more effective solution across the industry
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its helps us to reduce the search complexity and provides integration and smooth client onboarding experience , with the cost its one of the best product for search engines.
A good asset for software engineers that provide good search capabilities and scalabillity.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the user-friendly interface and its ability to set up search solutions quickly—a definite advantage when you have multiple data sources. I also love the integration capabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
It had a steeper learning curve according to me. When I started using it, it was a bit difficult for me as a beginner. But as I got used to it, it became much better. Also the configuration part is a bit tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Well, my company has an internal knowledge base. So I use it to search through this KB. We have this knowledge base in production and other companies/ organization can use this as well. Elastic search really eases the search process.
A good search solution
What do you like best about the product?
The search results are very fast and I like the facets feature. I used it over a million records of the database containing employee info and it took milliseconds to search them
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be pretty complex to set it up. cost of setting it up can be pretty high. I remember hosting it up in one of my past companies and costing was mor ethan 10k
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searches come in milliseconds, and the results are much more relevant as compared to other searh solutions. It has improved our users' efficiency, and provided valuable insights into our organization's information usage patterns
Great tool to implement complex search functionalities
What do you like best about the product?
Faster search responses is the best thing we like.
Great documentation and support if needed any help from customer team.
Great documentation and support if needed any help from customer team.
What do you dislike about the product?
No drawbacks regarding the performance.
Only thing is its a time taking process to setup.
Only thing is its a time taking process to setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used mongodb as primary database for our project which has huge data and API,s are taking more time to process the search requests, after porting the search data to elastic search we see a lot of performance improvement in our groceries project.
API's response are real quick and its very helpful for our project.
API's response are real quick and its very helpful for our project.
Amazing experience to use Elastic Enterprise search
What do you like best about the product?
Provide accurate results what we are looking for in the search. Its very professional tool used to work in my organisation. Its brilliant in providing results compared to their competitors
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now when we have used it its difficult to say we dislike anything about the elastic enterprise search. Just little bit user interface need to be worked on else its good to go
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used the elastic search to research about the market and provide our customer a better service as we are a software development company elastic enterpise software search and ecommerce searched a lot to get our software and ecommerce products improvement
Nice Experience
What do you like best about the product?
I like Elastic Enterprise's vision and there approach to the Market.
What do you dislike about the product?
Till now there is nothing to say dislike about Elastic Enterprise
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have joined resently so that till now i don't face any problem
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