We performed a comparison between Amazon Athena and Elastic Search based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Search as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Athena has a really good UI and is very compatible with on-prem products."
"Amazon Athena is very stable. I never had any issues with it. The dashboarding tool is okay."
"The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to partition your databases. I also like the federal query functionality, for cases when you have to query outside your S3 storage, or even completely outside of the AWS platform."
"You can perform SQL queries in S3 using Athena."
"It's easy to set up the product."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it. That's really handy. Product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"The most valuable feature for us is the analytics that we can configure and view using Kibana."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is user behavior analysis."
"It is easy to scale with the cluster node model."
"The most valuable feature is the out of the box Kibana."
"It provides deep visibility into your cloud and distributed applications, from microservices to serverless architectures. It quickly identifies and resolves the root causes of issues, like gaining visibility into all the cloud-based and on-prem applications."
"I appreciate that Elastic Enterprise Search is easy to use and that we have people on our team who are able to manage it effectively."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the opportunity to search behind and between different logs."
"If you compare it with Palantir, if you have some data and you want to quickly have a look at it, then that feature is not available in Amazon Cloud."
"I think it would be better if the product were more mature. It's still a young product compared to Power BI or Qlik. I find that development is a bit difficult, but it might be because I'm used to other tools. The dashboarding capabilities could be better. The reporting and statement generation could be better. I couldn't technically initiate picture-perfect reporting, for example, to send out statements every month for banking customers."
"One improvement I can suggest is that Athena needs to work better with third-parties. For example, the process of querying a Microsoft SQL warehouse could be improved."
"You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the cloud."
"I would like to use Spark or Python-based queries in Athena."
"The solution should include a better API for query services."
"There are some features lacking in ELK Elasticsearch."
"Both the graph feature and the reporting feature are a little bit lacking. The alerting also needs to be improved."
"The UI point of view is not very powerful because it is dependent on Kibana."
"Elastic Enterprise Search can improve by adding some kind of search that can be used out of the box without too much struggle with configuration. With every kind of search engine, there is some kind of special function that you need to do. A simple out-of-the-box search would be useful."
"Ratio aggregation is not supported in this solution."
"They're making changes in their architecture too frequently."
"Better dashboards or a better configuration system would be very good."
"The pricing of this product needs to be more clear because I cannot understand it when I review the website."
Amazon Athena is ranked 4th in Search as a Service with 6 reviews while Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Search as a Service with 59 reviews. Amazon Athena is rated 7.6, while Elastic Search is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Athena writes "A great AWS application that is easy to set up and simple to expand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". Amazon Athena is most compared with Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon AWS CloudSearch and Azure Search, whereas Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Pinecone, Azure Search and Splunk User Behavior Analytics. See our Amazon Athena vs. Elastic Search report.
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