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BA Insight vs Elastic Search comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

BA Insight
Ranking in Indexing and Search
19th
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
99
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of BA Insight is 2.6%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Search is 10.1%, down from 24.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search10.1%
BA Insight2.6%
Other87.3%
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."
"Elastic Search makes handling large data volumes efficient and supports complex search operations."
"My favorite feature is always aggregations and aggregators; you do not have to do multiple queries and it is always optimized for me, and I always got the perfect results because I am using full text search with aliases and keyword search, everything I am performing it, and it always performs out of the box."
"I would recommend Elastic Search to other people who want to have fast search in their applications."
"All the quality features are there. There are about 60 to 70 reports available."
"I value the feature that allows me to share the dashboards to different people with different levels of access."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is user behavior analysis."
"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."
"Decision-making has become much faster due to real-time data and quick responses."
 

Cons

"The preview feature made the results page take too long to load."
"Elastic Search needs to improve its technical support. It should be customer-friendly and have good support."
"Logstash has been a challenge and needs improvements in data ingestion reconciliation."
"It needs email notification, similar to what Logentries has. Because of the notification issue, we moved to Logentries, as it provides a simple way to receive notification whenever a server encounters an error or unexpected conditions (which we have defined using RegEx​)."
"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."
"According to me, as far as I have seen, people will start moving from Elastic Search sooner or later. Why? Because it is expensive."
"More AI would be beneficial. I would also appreciate more simplicity in dashboards."
"Elasticsearch is useful for different business processes, but there are some problems."
"They could improve some of the platform's infrastructure management capabilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is a free version, and there is also a hosted version for which you have to pay. We're currently using the free version. If things go well, we might go for the paid version."
"The premium license is expensive."
"I rate Elastic Search's pricing an eight out of ten."
"The solution is not expensive because users have the option of choosing the managed or the subscription model."
"The solution is affordable."
"The basic license is free, but it comes with a lot of features that aren't free. With a gold license, we get active directory integration. With a platinum license, we get alerting."
"The version of Elastic Enterprise Search I am using is open source which is free. The pricing model should improve for the enterprise version because it is very expensive."
"It can move from $10,000 US Dollars per year to any price based on how powerful you need the searches to be and the capacity in terms of storage and process."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Retailer
6%
 

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 Enterprise49
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
Elastic Search is easy to use in Azure cloud. Mostly, my full company uses Azure cloud, so it is easy to use. Cost-wise, my company found Elastic Search is good. Cost matters. Based on cost and use...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
The initial configuration could be easier; at first, the learning curve is a little high, and over time, it becomes easier. For me, the initial configuration might be improved.
What is your primary use case for ELK Elasticsearch?
We use Elastic Search for a research application based on paper study, and the primary usage is for indexing the data and then functioning in a similar way to an e-commerce search bar.
 

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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