We performed a comparison between Algolia, Azure Search, and Elastic Search based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and others in Search as a Service."The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."
"Offers a tremendous amount of flexibility and scalability when integrating with applications."
"The product is extremely configurable, allowing you to customize the search experience to suit your needs."
"The amount of flexibility and agility is really assuring."
"Because all communication is done via the REST API, data is retrieved quickly in JSON format to reduce overhead and latency."
"Azure Search is well-documented, making it easy to understand and implement."
"The customer engagement was good."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"The product is pretty resilient."
"I appreciate that Elastic Enterprise Search is easy to use and that we have people on our team who are able to manage it effectively."
"Helps us to store the data in key value pairs and, based on that, we can produce visualisations in Kibana."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it. That's really handy. Product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"Data indexing of historical data is the most beneficial feature of the product."
"A nonstructured database that can manage large amounts of nonstructured data."
"ELK Elasticsearch is 100% scalable as scalability is built into the design"
"Dashboard is very customizable."
"The most valuable features are the data store and the X-pack extension."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"For SDKs, Azure Search currently offers solutions for .NET and Python. Additional platforms would be welcomed, especially native iOS and Android solutions for mobile development."
"The pricing is room for improvement."
"Adding items to Azure Search using its .NET APIs sometimes throws exceptions."
"For availability, expanding its use to all Azure datacenters would be helpful in increasing awareness and usage of the product."
"The after-hour services are slow."
"The initial setup is not as easy as it should be."
"They should add an API for third-party vendors, like a security operating center or reporting system, that would be a big improvement."
"It would be good if the site found a better way to filter things based on subscription."
"I would like to see more integration for the solution with different platforms."
"There are challenges with performance management and scalability."
"The different applications need to be individually deployed."
"Elastic Search needs to improve authentication. It also needs to work on the Kibana visualization dashboard."
"I have not been using the solution for many years to know exactly the improvements needed. However, they could simplify how the YML files have to be structured properly."
"Machine learning on search needs improvement."
"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."
"Elastic Enterprise Search can improve by adding some kind of search that can be used out of the box without too much struggle with configuration. With every kind of search engine, there is some kind of special function that you need to do. A simple out-of-the-box search would be useful."
