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Elastic Search vs Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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
100
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (6th)
Pulse Elasticsearch and Ope...
Ranking in Indexing and Search
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.8%, down from 22.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is 1.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.8%
Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch1.4%
Other88.8%
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.
Rafayel Agamyan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Search performance has transformed customer document access and continues to improve satisfaction
Customer satisfaction has significantly improved since switching to Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch from old legacy services, as many insights from customers indicate that latency has changed dramatically and the speed is significantly better now. For others looking into using Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, it is definitely recommended to give it a try, especially if old legacy systems that are slow are currently being used. Lately, OpenSearch has come up with a new version that greatly enhances speed, so trying it is encouraged and it will be loved. A review rating of 9 reflects the overall satisfaction with Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"What I appreciate about Elastic Search is that the best features include the ability to search through very big documents and index and search through them really fast."
"The most valuable feature for us is the analytics that we can configure and view using Kibana."
"The solution has improved our organization by allowing us to quickly search data from multiple systems saving valuable time."
"The observability is the best available because it provides granular insights that identify reasons for defects."
"In summary, Elasticsearch is a very useful product that I can quickly recommend."
"It provides deep visibility into your cloud and distributed applications, from microservices to serverless architectures. It quickly identifies and resolves the root causes of issues, like gaining visibility into all the cloud-based and on-prem applications."
"The AI-based attribute tagging is a valuable feature."
"Customer satisfaction has significantly improved since switching to Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch from old legacy services, as many insights from customers indicate that latency has changed dramatically and the speed is significantly better now."
"It is quite easy, and I think it was really great the way they offered the services."
 

Cons

"I think the pricing of Elastic Search is really, really expensive."
"They could simplify the Filebeat and Logstash configuration piece. There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system."
"They should improve its documentation. Their official documentation is not very informative."
"Technical support should be faster."
"There is another solution I'm testing which has a 500 record limit when you do a search on Elastic Enterprise Search. That's the only area in which I'm not sure whether it's a limitation on our end in terms of knowledge or a technical limitation from Elastic Enterprise Search. There is another solution we are looking at that rides on Elastic Enterprise Search. And the limit is for any sort of records that you're doing or data analysis you're trying to do, you can only extract 500 records at a time. I know the open-source nature has a lot of limitations, Otherwise, Elastic Enterprise Search is a fantastic solution and I'd recommend it to anyone."
"The documentation regarding customization could be better."
"Elastic Search has limitations for handling huge amounts of data and updates, especially if updates are frequent."
"We'd like more user-friendly integrations."
"I think the way they support the ingesting service for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is not really great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It can be expensive."
"Elastic Search is open-source, but you need to pay for support, which is expensive."
"The price of Elastic Enterprise is very, very competitive."
"we are using a licensed version of the product."
"We are using the free version and intend to upgrade."
"The tool is not expensive. Its licensing costs are yearly."
"The pricing model is questionable and needs to be addressed because when you would like to have the security they charge per machine."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
31%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Healthcare Company
11%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise50
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Questions from the Community

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...
What is your primary use case for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
My primary use case is powering up the search in the product.
What advice do you have for others considering Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
I have not used the SQL query support feature. I did assess the RESTful API support. I have not utilized Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch machine learning features, as there was no use case for m...
What needs improvement with Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
I think the way they support the ingesting service for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is not really great. If I got to attach a few more records, they don't support it. It's all rewrite every t...
 

Also Known As

Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
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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.
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