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Airbyte Cloud vs Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Airbyte Cloud
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (43rd), Cloud Data Integration (24th)
Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearc...
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (11th)
 

Featured Reviews

Bhaglal Kapar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Data workflows have accelerated and now optimize migration and cost management
The best feature Airbyte Cloud offers is data transformation. Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted our organization by being very helpful and speeding up our work environment. An example of how it has helped speed things up is that we have data here and there, which helps us to organize and speed up our migration. Data tasks help our workflow and organization because most of the things we do manually, so that helps organize.
Mahir Selek - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
Chatbot has handled large PDF search workloads and provides clear dashboards for daily work
Because I am pursuing a PhD and work under the university, my university has an agreement with AWS, which makes it essentially free and easier to use. In the AWS ecosystem, everything is connected and I can control everything without uncertainty about what is happening behind the scenes. However, when using Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service), I connected it to Google Cloud but I am paying separate receipts. Over the last two months in October and November, I paid two separate invoices that are not connected to Google Cloud, which I did not appreciate. Google Cloud has a nice interface that gives me full control of pricing and billing. I can see daily, weekly, and monthly breakdowns with bar charts, and I can track exactly how much I spent during any period. Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) does not have such a tool for billing visibility. Since I am handling significant amounts of money and am responsible for this task within my company, I have high expectations for pricing and billing transparency. I would appreciate the ability to set a spending limit, such as uploading 200 euros, and receive notifications when reaching 50% of that limit. These notifications could appear on the dashboard, in the application, or via email. It would be valuable to see a timeline of my spending. I would characterize the pricing as somewhat expensive. I did not use competitors extensively, so I may have a bias about this. The pricing of large language models is not expensive—I use Anthropic's Claude or Google's Gemini, which are state-of-the-art models. However, I am uncertain whether I have a bias about Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) pricing. It is not extraordinarily expensive, but when I compare it with the cost of using large language models or Google Cloud storage, it is quite expensive. A couple of days ago, the Elastic team reached out to me. We have been regularly using the service since April, and 10 days ago at the beginning of December, I deleted my hosted deployments because I did not like the idea of paying when I am not actively using Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service). They informed me that there is a serverless option available. Before Christmas, I want to try it to see how it works, as I am uncertain about the serverless concept and whether it will provide the same functionality that I use with the hosted deployment.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted our organization by being very helpful and speeding up our work environment."
"Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted our organization because we were looking for multiple products and ended up choosing Airbyte because it is easy to use and set up."
"There have been quite a lot of good outcomes since using Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service); customers have been able to use their data much faster and more effectively, and it definitely stands as one of the best observability platforms."
"Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) is a wonderful solution for seamless implementation and maintaining its health."
"Scalability is valuable to me, as I have 50,000 PDF JSON files that contain my metadata, and I am really glad to use Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) for this volume without any issues."
"Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to move away from expensive services such as DataDog and gives us about the same level of service while allowing us to keep data for a longer period of time at a cheaper price."
 

Cons

"I think Airbyte Cloud can be improved by adding more connectors and more customizable connectors."
"Airbyte Cloud can be improved because it looks good so far, but based on the AI coming, they have to catch up with AI agents."
"Sometimes it gets tricky to navigate through the user manuals because there are different forms of links."
"The logging feature of Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) itself is pretty valuable, but we tried the observability module and some of the AI features. Those need improvement."
"Machine learning might be expensive for customers."
"I would characterize the pricing as somewhat expensive. It is not extraordinarily expensive, but when I compare it with the cost of using large language models or Google Cloud storage, it is quite expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
41%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
Transportation Company
5%
Construction Company
26%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Airbyte Cloud?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good.
What needs improvement with Airbyte Cloud?
Airbyte Cloud can be improved because it looks good so far, but based on the AI coming, they have to catch up with AI agents. Everything seems to be going through AI, so that is a consideration for...
What is your primary use case for Airbyte Cloud?
Airbyte Cloud's main use case for our organization is to optimize our cost. A specific example of how we're using Airbyte Cloud to optimize costs is that we have some tools, and they also help us t...
What needs improvement with Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)?
Machine learning might be expensive for customers. Customers take advantage of Elastic being open source, but machine learning is not available in the open source version. If a customer is using th...
What is your primary use case for Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)?
I developed a chatbot with text summarization and question answering capabilities. I need to summarize multiple PDFs, and I have a database in Google Cloud Storage where I perform keyword matching ...
What advice do you have for others considering Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)?
Some of my customers utilize Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service), especially in the private sector, but most of the government sector do not use it. Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) performs...
 

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