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Elastic Search vs Lucidworks 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

Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
98
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (5th)
Lucidworks
Ranking in Indexing and Search
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 10.1%, down from 24.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucidworks is 5.8%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search10.1%
Lucidworks5.8%
Other84.1%
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

"The most valuable features of Elastic Enterprise Search are it's cloud-ready and we do a lot of infrastructure as code. By using ELK, we're able to deploy the solution as part of our ISC deployment."
"The AI-based attribute tagging is a valuable feature."
"The best feature of Elastic Search is it does exactly what it says."
"Elastic Search is the perfect tool for scalability."
"On the subject of pricing, Elastic Search is very cost-efficient, as you can host it on-premises, which would incur zero cost, or take it as a SaaS-based service, where the expenses remain minimal."
"The machine learning features of Elastic Search are very interesting, including the possibility to include models such as ELSER and different multilingual models that let us fine-tune our searches and use them in our search projects."
"The Attack Discovery feature helps to dig into incidents from where they occurred to determine how the incident originated and its source; it gives an entire path of attack propagation, showing when it started, what happened, and all events that took place to connect the entire cyber incident."
"I appreciate the indexing capabilities and the speed of indexing in their product, which demonstrates how quickly logs are collected and stored."
"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."
 

Cons

"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve the report templates."
"There were also some difficult times with parallel and point-in-time interfaces, so better documentation could help, particularly more example-driven content."
"It would be useful to include an assistant into Kibana for recommendations, advice, tutorials, or things that can help improve my daily work with Elastic Search."
"I would like to see more open source tools and testing as well as a signature analysis in the solution."
"Scalability of Elastic Search presents disadvantages, particularly when handling minimal or production-level data."
"There are a few things that did not work for us. When doing a search in a bigger setup, with a huge amount of data where there are several things coming in, it has to be on top of the index that we search."
"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."
"I want the solution to improve the graph feature because it is a little bit poor."
"The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk."
"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."
"ELK has been considered as an alternative to Splunk to reduce licensing costs."
"Although the ELK Elasticsearch software is open-source, we buy the hardware."
"The cost varies based on factors like usage volume, network load, data storage size, and service utilization. If your usage isn't too extensive, the cost will be lower."
"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."
"We are using the open-sourced version."
"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
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise48
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Questions from the Community

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.
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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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897,143 professionals have used our research since 2012.