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Elastic Search vs Lucidworks comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
96
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (2nd)
Lucidworks
Ranking in Indexing and Search
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 10.9%, down from 24.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucidworks is 5.9%, down from 11.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search10.9%
Lucidworks5.9%
Other83.2%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

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.
reviewer1679460 - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Manager at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Multiple connectors available, simple to manage, and easy to use for all users
The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box. It is simple to manage and easier to use for all users The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing. I have been using Lucidworks for approximately five years. Lucidworks is…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"ELK Elasticsearch is definitely a stable solution; it is the spec that surprises most of the other logging solutions in the market."
"The best feature of Elastic Search that I appreciate is its monitoring capability."
"Elastic Search has excellent features, particularly its scalability and speed."
"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."
"The ability to aggregate log and machine data into a searchable index reduces time to identify and isolate issues for an application. Saves time in triage and incident response by eliminating manual steps to access and parse logs on separate systems, within large infrastructure footprints."
"It's a stable solution and we have not had any issues."
"Search is really powerful."
"Using real-time search functionality to support operational decisions has been helpful."
"We have a single powerful search solution, which provides search capabilities for all our needs."
"The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box, and it is simple to manage and easier to use for all users."
"Provides the ability to control how indexing and searching perform and controls how the scoring for search results is done, letting you customize the search experience according to your needs."
"The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box. It is simple to manage and easier to use for all users."
 

Cons

"The real-time search functionality is not operational due to its impact on system resources."
"To do what we want to do with Elastic Search, the queries can get complex and require a fuller understanding of the DSL."
"The GUI is the part of the program which has the most room for improvement."
"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve its SSL integration easier. We should not need to go to the back-end servers to do configuration, we should be able to do it on the GUI."
"I found an issue with Elasticsearch in terms of aggregation. They are good, yet the rules written for this are not really good."
"The pricing of this product needs to be more clear because I cannot understand it when I review the website."
"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."
"We'd like to see more integration in the future, especially around service desks or other ITSM tools."
"Having some kind of prebuilt client UI will be helpful."
"Having some kind of prebuilt client UI will be helpful."
"The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available."
"The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Although the ELK Elasticsearch software is open-source, we buy the hardware."
"The tool is not expensive. Its licensing costs are yearly."
"The premium license is 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."
"It can be expensive."
"To access all the features available you require both the open source license and the production license."
"An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
"The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available. I have to renew it annually. The price of Lucidworks can be difficult for some of my clients to afford."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business39
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise47
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
When it comes to pricing, I think we had to pay AWS approximately 1,000 to 1,200 per month for the overall stack. I am not quite certain about how much Elastic Search costs specifically because I w...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
Elastic Search has many features, including Kibana and Logstash, which we regularly use. However, one downside in our product is cost, as it can be expensive when maintaining multiple shards and in...
What is your primary use case for ELK Elasticsearch?
As a developer, I use Elastic Search in developing one of my applications, basically integrating the back-end with Elastic Search. Our main use case for Elastic Search is for Logstash, which is a s...
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

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.
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Nike, Target, Verizon, Hortonworks
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