Elastic vs Splunk

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Elastic
Based on 157 reviews.
Splunk
Based on 402 reviews.
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Overview
Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is released as open source under the terms of the Apache License. Elasticsearch is the second most popular enterprise search engine. Shay Banon created Compass in 2004. Elasticsearch BV was founded in 2012 to provide commercial solutions around Elasticsearch and related software.
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Sample Customers
Elastic Security
Texas A&M, U.S. Air Force, NuScale Power, Martin's Point Health Care
Elastic Observability
PSCU, Entel, VITAS, Mimecast, Barrett Steel, Butterfield Bank
Splunk Enterprise Security
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)
TransUnion, Cox Automotive, Carnival Cruises, Leidos, Econocom, National Ignition Factory, Entrust Datacard, Molina Healthcare, United States Census Bureau
Splunk APM
Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Entrust Datacard
Splunk SOAR
Recorded Future, Blackstone
Splunk Cloud Platform
Mindtouch
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Top Industries
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
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