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BA Insight vs Elastic Search comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

BA Insight
Ranking in Indexing and Search
20th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
100
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of BA Insight is 2.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.8%, down from 22.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.8%
BA Insight2.5%
Other87.7%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

it_user265773 - PeerSpot reviewer
GDS Search Services Leader, Knowledge Services at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Refiners help to easily narrow down results based on metadata applied to content. Previews allow users to take action from search results without opening the document.
The preview feature made the results page take too long to load. It also took a long time to generate document previews. Randomly, it would show “cannot load preview”. I do not know the reason, but that happened a lot and we had to turn this feature off. Preview load time could be reduced. We saw that it takes forever to load a document preview, and at times, after waiting, it just gave a ‘cannot load preview error’.
reviewer2817942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Logging and vector search have transformed observability and empowered reliable ai agents
Elastic Search is not specifically being used for certain purposes. I deploy Elastic Search database on the cloud and use cloud services so that nobody can attack. However, I do not use Elastic Search to resolve attack issues. The basic main purpose of Elastic Search, as of now, I feel it can do more in the AI area. Sometime I saw that when I am developing RAG and have to generate the embeddings, which I call metadata, sometimes it tries to fail. That durability or issue handling should be improved, but apart from that, I did not find anything as of now. As per my use case, whatever I am using seems pretty good. Apart from that, some definitely improvement will be there. One improvement is that it should be faster. Whenever I am searching any logs, it takes much time. For example, if I open my log in Notepad or a similar tool, I can search the text within a second. With Elastic Search, it takes a little bit of time, ten to fifteen seconds. That can be improved. Sometimes, engineers take time to assign when I create a ticket.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Refiners help to easily narrow down results based on metadata applied to content, and the preview feature helps users to take action from the search results page without opening the documents."
"The solution is quite scalable and this is one of its advantages."
"The initial setup is very easy for small environments."
"The solution has great scalability."
"The search speed is most valuable and important."
"The solution is valuable for log analytics."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it; that's really handy, and product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"The product is scalable with good performance."
"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."
 

Cons

"The preview feature made the results page take too long to load."
"Regarding what I dislike about Elastic Search, there is one issue that occurs because Elastic Search is not my primary database; it serves as a substitute database for the searching part."
"They could simplify the Filebeat and Logstash configuration piece. There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system."
"Logstash has been a challenge and needs improvements in data ingestion reconciliation."
"Technical support should be faster."
"The one area that can use improvement is the automapping of fields."
"According to me, as far as I have seen, people will start moving from Elastic Search sooner or later. Why? Because it is expensive."
"I want the solution to improve the graph feature because it is a little bit poor."
"Could have more open source tools and testing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is not expensive because users have the option of choosing the managed or the subscription model."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
"This is a free, open source software (FOSS) tool, which means no cost on the front-end. There are no free lunches in this world though. Technical skill to implement and support are costly on the back-end with ELK, whether you train/hire internally or go for premium services from Elastic."
"An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk."
"The solution is affordable."
"we are using a licensed version of the product."
"The solution is free."
"We are using the open-sourced version."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise50
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
The pricing for Elastic Search is mainly budgeted according to the organization budget, so we take it as a yearly subscription, and that is acceptable since we do get a fair discount when we are ta...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
When we get the logs, it is mostly about how we edit the configurations and how we make changes according to the requirements of our organization. In these cases, the logs sometimes can be a bit in...
What is your primary use case for ELK Elasticsearch?
I am the Elastic Search admin for my organization, and we are using Elastic Search to handle the traffic to GCP. The monitoring of all the clusters and all the deployments are quite good, and compa...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

BA Insight Enterprise Search Essentials, BA Insight Enterprise Search
Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

AARP, Amgen, Blank Rome, Chevron, Australian Government, EY, Hogan Lovells, Keurig Green Mountain, OFWAT, Pfizer, Stanford University, US Army, White & Case
T-Mobile, Adobe, Booking.com, BMW, Telegraph Media Group, Cisco, Karbon, Deezer, NORBr, Labelbox, Fingerprint, Relativity, NHS Hospital, Met Office, Proximus, Go1, Mentat, Bluestone Analytics, Humanz, Hutch, Auchan, Sitecore, Linklaters, Socren, Infotrack, Pfizer, Engadget, Airbus, Grab, Vimeo, Ticketmaster, Asana, Twilio, Blizzard, Comcast, RWE and many others.
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