We performed a comparison between Algolia and Elastic Search based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and others in Search as a Service."It's scalable. It can be scaled massively."
"The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."
"A nonstructured database that can manage large amounts of nonstructured data."
"The most valuable feature for us is the analytics that we can configure and view using Kibana."
"The solution has good security features. I have been happy with the dashboards and interface."
"The products comes with REST APIs."
"The most valuable feature is the out of the box Kibana."
"It helps us to analyse the logs based on the location, user, and other log parameters."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Enterprise Search are it's cloud-ready and we do a lot of infrastructure as code. By using ELK, we're able to deploy the solution as part of our ISC deployment."
"The observability is the best available because it provides granular insights that identify reasons for defects."
"The solution must provide AI integrations."
"Elastic Search needs to improve its technical support. It should be customer-friendly and have good support."
"They should improve its documentation. Their official documentation is not very informative. They can also improve their technical support. They don't help you much with the customized stuff. They also need to add more visuals. Currently, they have line charts, bar charts, and things like that, and they can add more types of visuals. They should also improve the alerts. They are not very simple to use and are a bit complex. They could add more options to the alerting system."
"There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system. It could be simplified in the user interface."
"I would like to see more integration for the solution with different platforms."
"Dashboards could be more flexible, and it would be nice to provide more drill-down capabilities."
"I don't see improvements at the moment. The current setup is working well for me, and I'm satisfied with it. Integrating with different platforms is also fine, and I'm not recommending any changes or enhancements right now."
"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve its SSL integration easier. We should not need to go to the back-end servers to do configuration, we should be able to do it on the GUI."
Algolia is ranked 7th in Search as a Service with 2 reviews while Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Search as a Service with 59 reviews. Algolia is rated 8.6, while Elastic Search is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Algolia writes "Documentation is the best part and worth the money if the search is the core feature of your product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". Algolia is most compared with Amazon AWS CloudSearch, Amazon Kendra, Azure Search and Solr, whereas Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Pinecone, Azure Search and Amazon Athena.
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