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Microsoft FAST vs Oracle Endeca 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

Microsoft FAST
Ranking in Indexing and Search
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Endeca
Ranking in Indexing and Search
12th
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Microsoft FAST is 6.5%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Endeca is 3.0%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1466883 - PeerSpot reviewer
Robust solution with good value
Microsoft FAST is quite robust. Our clients are quite happy with it. For other users who already have a solution in place, we recommend Microsoft FAST because it is more compatible and you can organize the solution with Microsoft components. If you are with any other third party, there could be a chance that the required output is not what you would expect. But with Microsoft, it will work better. It is compatible with the older generation systems, so you can offer it. On a scale of one to ten, I would give Microsoft FAST an eight because I'm quite comfortable with it.
it_user6903 - PeerSpot reviewer
It’s got a good range of data visualisation components, but lacks the support for runtime complex query firing and support which OBIEE supports.
Primarily, a BI tool that enables analysis of unstructured and semi-structured data, as well as more traditional structured (measures, dimensions etc) data sets with ability to bring together loosely-related datasets and analyse them using search and lexical analysis tools. The in-memory key-value store database it uses doesn’t have the same costs around data manipulation, table joins and disk access that traditional databases have, and the column-based storage it uses is particularly suited to selecting from sets of dimension members.
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Also Known As

MS FAST
Endeca
 

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Sample Customers

Moffitt Cancer Center, Hitachi Solutions, Manupatra Information Solutions, Unique World, _KODA AUTO a.s., MindTree Ltd, Mississippi Department of Transportation
Virgin Media, Agilent, NHS Business Services Authority, IBFD, Valdosta State University, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, Delphi Automotive, Riverbed
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