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Elastic Search vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
6.4
Elastic Search offers high ROI, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, with significant time-saving and security benefits despite some licensing costs.
Sentiment score
7.3
TIBCO BusinessWorks offers flexibility and reliability, with ROI seen in two years, ensuring smooth development and overall satisfaction.
The main benefits observed from using Elastic Search include improvements in operational efficiency, along with cost, time, and resource savings.
It is stable, and we do not encounter critical issues like server downtime, which could result in data loss.
We have not purchased any licensed products, and our use of Elastic Search is purely open-source, contributing positively to our ROI.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Elastic Search's customer service is praised for responsiveness and knowledge, but complex issue support may require improvement.
Sentiment score
6.1
TIBCO BusinessWorks customer service is generally efficient with knowledgeable teams, though experiences vary in responsiveness and problem-solving.
I would rate technical support from Elastic Search as three out of ten.
Customer service is very helpful.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Elastic Search is scalable and integrates well, but challenges exist with large datasets and disaster recovery under rapid scaling.
Sentiment score
6.9
TIBCO BusinessWorks is scalable, handling large data, but costs and licensing can limit expansion, especially on-premise.
I would rate its scalability a ten.
I can actually add more storage and memory because I host it in the cloud.
I would rate the scalability of Elasticsearch as an eight.
It is not like AWS where I can add memory or more servers.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Elastic Search is stable and reliable, though version updates and data management can affect performance under stress.
Sentiment score
7.6
TIBCO BusinessWorks is stable but faces challenges post version 5.14; users report memory spikes and require hotfixes for issues.
It was consistent and reliable in our usage.
The data transfer sometimes exceeded the bandwidth limits without proper notification, which caused issues.
It is stable, however, every now and then, it just ends.
 

Room For Improvement

Elastic Search needs improvements in security, scalability, usability, stability, integration, support, and enhanced features for a better user experience.
TIBCO BusinessWorks needs stability, cloud adoption, user-friendliness enhancements, better pricing, and improved support for non-technical users and monitoring.
The consistency and stability of Elasticsearch are commendable, and they should keep up the good work.
The architecture of Elastic Search could be improved as it is complicated for most general users to build up the environment and maintain the cluster.
This can create problems for new developers because they have to quickly switch to another version.
The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods.
They should ensure that what was working in the previous version must also work in the new version of BW six.
 

Setup Cost

Elastic Search's free open-source version can incur back-end costs for advanced features, expertise, and premium support.
TIBCO BusinessWorks is costly, especially for medium-sized companies, with discounts mainly benefiting large organizations through Enterprise License Agreements.
We used the open-source version of Elasticsearch, which was free.
Pricing is for an enterprise application, so the company pays for it with a company license.
 

Valuable Features

Elastic Search is valued for scalability, fast indexing, powerful analysis, security features, cloud readiness, and strong community support.
TIBCO BusinessWorks offers user-friendly, robust performance and scalable integration with efficient service creation and extensive legacy and cloud support.
Elastic Search makes handling large data volumes efficient and supports complex search operations.
The most valuable feature of Elasticsearch was the quick search capability, allowing us to search by any criteria needed.
I appreciate the indexing capabilities and the speed of indexing in their product, which demonstrates how quickly logs are collected and stored.
When I have an architecture designed to plug in the service itself with BW, it makes things much easier.
It's a great software application for the middleware use cases to connect the front channels to the back ends in a secure and safer way.
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Search
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
71
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (1st), Cloud Data Integration (9th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (3rd)
TIBCO BusinessWorks
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (17th)
 

Featured Reviews

Anand_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Captures data from all other sources and becomes a MOM aka monitoring of monitors
Scalability and ROI are the areas they have to improve. Their license terms are based on the number of cores. If you increase the number of cores, it becomes very difficult to manage at a large scale. For example, if I have a $3 million project, I won't sell it because if we're dealing with a 10 TB or 50 TB system, there are a lot of systems and applications to monitor, and I have to make an MOM (Mean of Max) for everything. This is because of the cost impact. Also, when you have horizontal scaling, it's like a multi-story building with only one elevator. You have to run around, and it's not efficient. Even the smallest task becomes difficult. That's the problem with horizontal scaling. They need to improve this because if they increase the cores and adjust the licensing accordingly, it would make more sense.
Moustafa Fares - PeerSpot reviewer
Connects systems securely, simplifies data communication, and benefits from AI integration potential
I would like to see an AI project with BusinessWorks. I haven't worked with cloud architecture using BusinessWorks, so I would like to work with it as a cloud architect. I am still learning the documentation, so I don't have a complete experience with TIBCO. The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
9%
Retailer
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
We used the open-source version of Elasticsearch, which was free.
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
It would be useful if a feature for renaming indices could be added without affecting the performance of other features. However, overall, the consistency and stability of Elasticsearch are already...
How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...
What do you like most about TIBCO BusinessWorks?
The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?
Pricing is for an enterprise application, so the company pays for it with a company license. Everything comes packaged with the license.
 

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.
Euler Hermes, QSuper, Scandinavian Airlines
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