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Elastic Search vs SnapLogic comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.4
Elastic Search enhanced efficiency and performance, offering substantial time and cost savings, despite mixed opinions on return metrics.
Sentiment score
8.5
Clients praise SnapLogic for improving efficiency and ROI, simplifying cloud integration, and automating data transfer without coding skills.
We have not purchased any licensed products, and our use of Elastic Search is purely open-source, contributing positively to our ROI.
Software Engineer at Government of India
It is stable, and we do not encounter critical issues like server downtime, which could result in data loss.
SOC A2 at Innodata-ISOGEN
The main benefits observed from using Elastic Search include improvements in operational efficiency, along with cost, time, and resource savings.
Senior Devops Engineer at Ubique Digital LTD
SnapLogic is really helpful and processes in very little time, so it doesn't take much time compared to any legacy tool.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
SnapLogic has helped automate manual data transfers significantly and improved our workflow efficiency, reducing integration development timelines considerably, which reflects a good ROI.
Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Elastic Search offers expert support and documentation, though response times and communication could improve for some users.
Sentiment score
7.0
SnapLogic's customer service receives mixed reviews, with commendations for quick responses and critiques for delays and knowledge gaps.
The customer support for Elastic Search is one of the best I have ever tried.
Software Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
They have always been really responsible and responsive to my requests.
Security Lead at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
It has been sufficient to visit conferences such as SCALE in Southern California Linux Expo, where Elastic Search has a booth to talk to their staff.
Principal Scientific Computing Software Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
The technical support from SnapLogic is excellent, and I would give it a complete ten.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Some SMEs are allotted for the organization, so in case of any issue, we have their email IDs to contact them for support, including SMEs and community.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
Customer support scales well; as pipeline volume grows, we have been able to add more integrations and users without performance degradation.
Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Elastic Search is highly scalable, enabling efficient node addition, though sharding, replication, and storage demands require careful management.
Sentiment score
7.4
SnapLogic offers easy scalability and elasticity in cloud and on-prem environments, supporting diverse business sizes and user needs.
I would rate its scalability a ten.
Backend Developer
Since we're on the cloud, whenever we need to upgrade or add resources, they handle everything.
Security Lead at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
We haven't encountered any problems so far, and there is the potential for auto-scaling.
Head of Data Management at Zeno Health
I rate the scalability of SnapLogic as eight out of ten.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Elastic Search is stable and reliable, despite some challenges, as proper management ensures performance under varying loads.
Sentiment score
7.4
SnapLogic is stable with high uptime, but faces challenges with large datasets and some prefer competitor support.
The data transfer sometimes exceeded the bandwidth limits without proper notification, which caused issues.
SOC A2 at Innodata-ISOGEN
The stability of Elasticsearch was very high.
Backend Developer
When you put one keyword, everything related to that keyword in your ecosystem will showcase all the results.
Chief Information Security Officer at CDSL Ventures Limited
I would rate the stability of SnapLogic as nearly ten out of ten.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
But recently, in a year, I haven't found many performance issues in SnapLogic.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
 

Room For Improvement

Elastic Search needs better security, pricing, machine learning, scalability, ease of use, and support, facing significant user challenges.
SnapLogic needs improved integrations, processing, transparency, support, AI, and performance for better user experience and large data handling.
From a technical point of view, there are no significant issues recalled as Elastic Search has been absolutely awesome for this use case and covers 100% of the needs.
Principal Scientific Computing Software Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
If I need to parse one million records saved into Elastic Search, it becomes a nightmare because I need to do the pagination, and it is very problematic in that regard.
Lead Engineer at Spidersilk
Observability features like search latency, indexing rate, and maybe rejected requests should be added to make the platform more reliable and accessible for everyone.
Senior System Engineer at EPAM Systems
If the AI capabilities and integrations were more intuitive and easy to learn for new users, it would be greatly beneficial.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
They can improve more visuals, with graphical representations, such as how many things can be added, how many users can be added or dropped, and how the back-end nodes can be graphically shown in a better way.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
I tend to frequently communicate with SnapLogic to ask for additional features, and they have been responsive.
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

Elastic Search's open-source version is free, but enterprises face costs in skills, training, support, and premium features.
SnapLogic's pricing, though moderate to high, offers scalability and value for complex integrations with its flexible, usage-based licensing.
On the AWS side, it is very expensive because they charge based on query basis or how much data is transferred in and out, making it very expensive.
Lead Engineer at Spidersilk
Having the hosted solution and not having to pay for essentially a DevOps person on staff to manage makes it affordable.
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
You can host it on-premises, which would incur zero cost, or take it as a SaaS-based service, where the expenses remain minimal.
Senior Software Engineer at Agoda
I would say the pricing is on the higher side, but it aligns with the capabilities offered for mid- to large integrations.
Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
There would be only one point of improvement if the price could be lower.
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
SnapLogic is positioned at around seven or eight out of ten in terms of pricing.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Elasticsearch offers real-time monitoring, scalability, and integration with Kibana, enhancing data retrieval, security, customization, and decision-making.
SnapLogic simplifies low-code development with drag-and-drop tools, pre-built snaps, and seamless integration, enhancing efficiency and user experience.
Elastic Search makes handling large data volumes efficient and supports complex search operations.
Software Engineer at Government of India
The most valuable feature of Elasticsearch was the quick search capability, allowing us to search by any criteria needed.
Backend Developer
The speed with which Elastic Search is able to search through all of the documents we place into it is quite remarkable, as we search through 65 billion documents in less than a second in most cases, on a constant consistent basis.
Director, Software Engineering at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I also like the whole child-parent pipeline feature; it allows me to break up a process into smaller pieces and then have one big pipeline that controls these smaller pipelines.
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
The drag-and-drop builder and pre-built snaps have helped our team through a very low-code approach, making it easier for us to develop fast pipelines and be more agile compared to the heavier integration platforms we used before.
Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I find SnapLogic to be user-friendly, especially for beginners with limited experience in data engineering or ETL.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Search
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (1st), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (2nd)
SnapLogic
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
14th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (21st), Process Automation (16th), API Management (20th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 1.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SnapLogic is 3.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Elastic Search1.6%
SnapLogic3.0%
Other95.4%
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Vaibhav Shukla - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Agoda
Search performance has transformed large-scale intent discovery and hybrid query handling
While Elastic Search is a good product, I see areas for improvement, particularly regarding the misconception that any amount of data can simply be dumped into Elastic Search. When creating an index, careful consideration of data massaging is essential. Elastic Search stores mappings for various data types, which must remain below a certain threshold to maintain functionality. Users need to throttle the number of fields for searching to avoid overloading the system and ensure that the design of the document is efficient for the Elastic Search index. Additionally, I suggest utilizing ILM periodically throughout the year to manage data shuffling between clusters, preventing hotspots in the distribution of requests across nodes.
SameerShaikh - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
Has automated manual tasks and simplified integration with pre-built connectors while supporting AI use cases
The tool is very user-friendly and not complex to understand. The structure of the platform is easy to understand, and we can build multiple systems with low-code, no-code, so it doesn't require much coding language. Now it is moving more into APIs, so we can create APIs to transfer data, which we can manage. It's moving into AI, so we can create AI agents with LLM models. We can use most of the LLM such as Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Azure AI. With those Snaps, we can integrate and move more into the AI world. SnapLogic is hosted on Groundplex and AWS cloud. It has pre-built connectors, which we call Snaps. That is very helpful to connect with multiple systems. We have a dashboard monitor that is very graphical. We can measure exact times in seconds and how much time it took to complete the process. With that help, it's really helpful to see how much memory consumption is utilized. The monitor structure has very good features for SnapLogic. SnapLogic is an integration tool which we use to integrate multiple systems such as source system, target system, cloud systems, and Groundplex systems. It is an iPaaS tool and a very strong tool. Now it is moving more into APIs and AI/ML tools; it is improving their knowledge. It is helpful for creating SnapLogic agents. In this way, SnapLogic is expanding their work.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise11
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
Elastic Search's pricing totally depends on the server. Managed services from AWS are used, and we have worked on a self-managed Elastic Search cluster. On the AWS side, it is very expensive becaus...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
To be honest, there is only one downside of Elastic Search that makes sense because we use a basic license, which is a free license. We do not have some features available because of the free licen...
What do you like most about SnapLogic?
Despite having no prior experience in SnapLogic, we managed to build, test, and prepare it for release in just three hours, handling heavy data efficiently.
What needs improvement with SnapLogic?
Some advanced features lack detailed documentation, and debugging complex pipelines could be more intuitive. We have faced a few issues with pipeline throttling, but SnapLogic support was responsiv...
What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?
Our main use case for SnapLogic is building integration pipelines across SaaS applications, databases, and internal systems to automate the data flows. A specific example of how we have used SnapLo...
 

Also Known As

Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
DataFlow
 

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.
Adobe, ADP, BlackBerry, Bonobos, Box, Capital One, Dannon, Eero, Endo, Gensler, HCL, HP, Grovo, HIS, iRobot, Leica, Merck, Sans, Target, Verizon, Vodafone, Yelp, Yahoo!
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