Elastic Search vs SAP Data Services comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Search
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (1st), Cloud Data Integration (10th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (1st)
SAP Data Services
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (10th), Data Quality (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 2.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Data Services is 3.4%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration
Unique Categories:
Indexing and Search
28.0%
Search as a Service
9.1%
Data Integration
2.7%
Data Quality
15.7%
 

Featured Reviews

AG
May 4, 2024
An open-source product that helped us to monitor website request and responses
We use the solution to monitor our website and APIs request and response cycle, also for log aggregation. We also used it for APM and searching for slow and database queries.  It helped a lot in identifying bottlenecks and events happening simultaneously among several services, since we can…
VP
May 25, 2023
Provides effective mapping and integration processes
The only thing is that it's a very specific product. It works well only for our SAP clients. That is its limitation. There is a lot of competition in that regard. It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better. It is built specifically for the SAP environment and follows best practices for SAP. When we want to work in a different environment, it becomes a bit more complex. On adding additional functionality to improve artificial intelligence, machine learning, and integration, I think most of it is already considered in the roadmap.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I value the feature that allows me to share the dashboards to different people with different levels of access."
"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 products comes with REST APIs."
"The initial setup is very easy for small environments."
"It helps us to analyse the logs based on the location, user, and other log parameters."
"The solution offers good stability."
"You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used."
"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 BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
 

Cons

"There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system. It could be simplified in the user interface."
"Elastic Enterprise Search's tech support is good but it could be improved."
"They could improve some of the platform's infrastructure management capabilities."
"Performance improvement could come from skipping background refresh on search idle shards (which is already being addressed in the upcoming seventh version)."
"They should improve its documentation. Their official documentation is not very informative. They can also improve their technical support. They don't help you much with the customized stuff. They also need to add more visuals. Currently, they have line charts, bar charts, and things like that, and they can add more types of visuals. They should also improve the alerts. They are not very simple to use and are a bit complex. They could add more options to the alerting system."
"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​)."
"Elastic Search needs to improve its technical support. It should be customer-friendly and have good support."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk."
"We are using the free version and intend to upgrade."
"The price of Elasticsearch is fair. It is a more expensive solution, like QRadar. The price for Elasticsearch is not much more than other solutions we have."
"We are using the free open-sourced version of this solution."
"To access all the features available you require both the open source license and the production license."
"​The pricing and license model are clear: node-based model."
"We are using the open-sourced version."
"The pricing model is questionable and needs to be addressed because when you would like to have the security they charge per machine."
"The pricing is a little high to make the product more competetive in the marketplace."
"The price of SAP Data Services is a little high when compared to other solutions. Due to the pricing and capabilities, many clients are switching to other solutions."
"At the entry level, if you're using it only for data integration, it is a little bit cheap. However, for large organizations it can be expensive. There are additional costs apart from the license."
"Its pricing is as per the enterprise agreement and not a concern for us."
"I rate the product price as one or two on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"There is a one time purchase fee plus annual maintenance."
"It's relatively expensive compared to other vendors, but it is competitive."
"The license price is expensive but medium to large-scale companies, should be able to afford it. Other solutions, such as Talend are easier to afford for smaller companies. Depending on the sources of the data where you are receiving your data you could be paying for more than one license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ELK Elasticsearch?
Logsign provides us with the capability to execute multiple queries according to our requirements. The indexing is very high, making it effective for storing and retrieving logs. The real-time anal...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
I don't see improvements at the moment. The current setup is working well for me, and I'm satisfied with it. Integrating with different platforms is also fine, and I'm not recommending any changes ...
How do you evaluate the ratio of price to quality for SAP Data Services?
I believe the license for the product is fair, even though some competitors offer similar services at lower prices. The difference between the Edge edition and the next one up is significant in pr...
Would you recommend SAP Data Services to complete beginners?
I think after some preparation, a beginner will be able to use SAP Data Services, however, if you are completely unprepared, you may have some issues. I think that in particular you will need a mo...
How has SAP Data Services helped your organization?
SAP Data Services has helped our whole staff understand the data across various sources and systems within the company. Not everyone who works at my organization is an IT expert - most just have av...
 

Also Known As

Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator
 

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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.
EMC Corporation, LivePerson, Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Migros Group
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