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Elastic Search

byElastic
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4.4
Market Presence: Insight Engines (Transitioning to Enterprise AI Search), Search and Product Discovery

Overview

Product Information on Elastic Search

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Elastic Search?

Elastic Search is a software that enables full-text search, structured search, and analytics across diverse data types. It is designed to index, search, and analyze large volumes of data quickly and in near real time. The software supports a distributed architecture for handling data across multiple servers and provides RESTful APIs for integration with other applications. Elastic Search addresses business needs such as log and event data analysis, enterprise search, and operational monitoring by supporting scalable queries, aggregation, filtering, and data visualization. Its schema-free design allows for flexible data ingestion from various sources, making it suitable for varied use cases including search engines, application performance monitoring, and security analytics.

Elastic Search Pricing

Elastic Search software uses a tiered pricing model that includes both free and paid subscription options. The software is available under an open-source license with additional features available in paid plans, structured by resource consumption, functionality, and support levels. Pricing may vary based on deployment choices such as cloud or self-managed environments.

Overall experience with Elastic Search

DIRECTOR OF DATA AND ANALYTICS
500M - 1B USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“Exploring the Ups and Downs of a Popular Real-Time Data Analysis Tool”

4.0
Oct 18, 2024
Best for real-time analytics, log and event data analysis and scenarios requiring high scalability.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
3B - 10B USD, Healthcare and Biotech
CRITICAL

“Good open source Elastic Search stack”

3.0
Jan 28, 2024
Elastic search was very useful in gathering logs and we created dashboard for reporting and monitoring all details injected from different applications.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Elastic enables organizations to securely harness search-powered AI so anyone can find the answers they need in real-time using all their data, at scale. By integrating AI with search technology, it facilitates the discovery of actionable insights from large volumes of both structured and unstructured data, addressing the need for real-time, scalable data processing. Our Elasticsearch Platform delivers search-powered AI for observability, security and search. Companies can now solve real-time business problems and achieve better business outcomes by taking advantage of massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, securing and protecting private information more effectively, and optimizing infrastructure and talent resources more efficiently. Elastic’s complete, easy-to-use cloud-based platform offers solutions in search, security, and observability, aimed at aiding businesses in leveraging AI technology securely and effectively.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2012
Head office location
Mountain View, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Annual Revenue
1B-3B USD
Website
http://www.elastic.co

Key Insights

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Deciding Factors: Elastic Search Vs. Market Average
Performance of Elastic Search Across Market Features

Elastic Search Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Supports near real-time search, which is ideal for our use-case where we need quick data updates. 2. Well integrated with Kibana for logging and monitoring 3. Distributed architecture making it easy to scale horizontally 4. Provides a simple, easy to use RESTful API for indexing and searching

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Like

Integration with devops applications and other ecomm systems Search capability in source code and large data with lot of filters Kibana dashboards

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Like

Powerful Search and Analytics, Customization options, Responsive support

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Dislike

1. Limited SQL support and not as robust and full featured as traditional SQL databases 2. Upgrading between major vsersions can cause breaking changes issues, and needs careful planning and testing 3. There's a slightly steep learning curve due to the wide range of features and configurations.

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Dislike

Elastic Cluster upgrading is complex Limited Alerting features Storage disk management Backup and restore is very complex

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Dislike

not really a dislike; however, advanced query language can be complex for new users

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Elastic Search Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 316 ratings and reviews for Insight Engines (Transitioning to Enterprise AI Search) market. View all 646 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.4

(316 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
47%
4 Star
48%
3 Star
5%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • DIRECTOR OF DATA AND ANALYTICS
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Exploring the Ups and Downs of a Popular Real-Time Data Analysis Tool

    4.0
    Oct 18, 2024
    Best for real-time analytics, log and event data analysis and scenarios requiring high scalability.
  • Security Architect
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Complex Setup and Data Aging Issues in Tech Platform: An Analysis

    4.0
    May 27, 2024
    One of the leaders in this space. The platform has matured significantly since I started using it several years ago. The plugin architecture with beats fills significant gaps in the architecture with logging.
  • INFRA TECH LEAD
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Elastic search A truly exceptional tool for Data Analysis and Insights

    5.0
    May 22, 2024
    Our overall experience with Elastic search has been truly exceptional. The platform's powerful search capabilities with its flexibility and robust support, have significantly enhanced our analysis and decision-making process.
  • ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT
    10B+ USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    Elastic.co: Leading the Way in Information Retrieval Systems

    5.0
    May 8, 2024
    Elastic.co has been focused on our success since our initial engagement.
  • CRO MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Quick and Reliable Elastic Search

    4.0
    May 26, 2024
    Elastic Search helps us with easily accessing our customer and order database. Fast and reliable.
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