We performed a comparison between Algolia 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."
"The products comes with REST APIs."
"Gives us a more user-friendly, centralized solution (for those who just needed a quick glance, without being masters of sed and awk) as well as the ability to implement various mechanisms for machine-learning from our logs, and sending alerts for anomalies."
"We had many reasons to implement Elasticsearch for search term solutions. Elasticsearch products provide enterprise landscape support for different areas of the company."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the opportunity to search behind and between different logs."
"You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used."
"It helps us to analyse the logs based on the location, user, and other log parameters."
"Search is really powerful."
"The initial installation and setup were straightforward."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"It is hard to learn and understand because it is a very big platform. This is the main reason why we still have nothing in production. We have to learn some things before we get there."
"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."
"There are challenges with performance management and scalability."
"We'd like more user-friendly integrations."
"There are some features lacking in ELK Elasticsearch."
"Ratio aggregation is not supported in this solution."
"We have an issue with the volume of data that we can handle."
"Technical support should be faster."
Algolia is ranked 7th in Search as a Service with 1 review while Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Search as a Service with 59 reviews. Algolia is rated 9.0, while Elastic Search is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Algolia writes "Focused capabilities, specialists in what they do, with consistent stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". Algolia is most compared with Amazon AWS CloudSearch, Amazon Kendra, Azure Search and Solr, whereas Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Azure Search, Pinecone and Amazon AWS CloudSearch.
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