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Elastic Search vs Lucidworks 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

Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
67
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (9th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (2nd)
Lucidworks
Ranking in Indexing and Search
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 25.4%, down from 26.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucidworks is 11.9%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

Anand_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Captures data from all other sources and becomes a MOM aka monitoring of monitors
Scalability and ROI are the areas they have to improve. Their license terms are based on the number of cores. If you increase the number of cores, it becomes very difficult to manage at a large scale. For example, if I have a $3 million project, I won't sell it because if we're dealing with a 10 TB or 50 TB system, there are a lot of systems and applications to monitor, and I have to make an MOM (Mean of Max) for everything. This is because of the cost impact. Also, when you have horizontal scaling, it's like a multi-story building with only one elevator. You have to run around, and it's not efficient. Even the smallest task becomes difficult. That's the problem with horizontal scaling. They need to improve this because if they increase the cores and adjust the licensing accordingly, it would make more sense.
OK
Provides the ability to control how indexing and searching perform
* Facets were one of the major features which provide powerful ways to filter search results. * A wide range of connectors allows you to utilize Fusion on different areas. * Ability to control how indexing and searching perform and controls how the scoring for search results is done, letting you customize the search experience according to your needs. * High availability

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution has great scalability."
"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 flexibility and the support for diverse languages that it provides for searching the database are most valuable. We can use different languages to query the database."
"The solution is valuable for log analytics."
"You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used."
"The security portion of Elasticsearch is particularly beneficial, allowing me to view and analyze security alerts."
"The observability is the best available because it provides granular insights that identify reasons for defects."
"The search speed is most valuable and important."
"Provides the ability to control how indexing and searching perform and controls how the scoring for search results is done, letting you customize the search experience according to your needs."
"The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box. It is simple to manage and easier to use for all users."
 

Cons

"The pricing of this product needs to be more clear because I cannot understand it when I review the website."
"Ratio aggregation is not supported in this solution."
"An improvement would be to have an interface that allows easier navigation and tracing of logs."
"The UI point of view is not very powerful because it is dependent on Kibana."
"We see the need for some improvements with Elasticsearch. We would like the Elasticsearch package to include training lessons for our staff."
"While integrating with tools like agents for ingesting data from sources like firewalls is valuable, I believe prioritizing improvements to the core product would be more beneficial."
"Elasticsearch could improve by honoring Unix environmental variables and not relying only on those provided by Java (e.g. installing plugins over the Unix http proxy)."
"Its licensing needs to be improved. They don't offer a perpetual license. They want to know how many nodes you will be using, and they ask for an annual subscription. Otherwise, they don't give you permission to use it. Our customers are generally military or police departments or customers without connection to the internet. Therefore, this model is not suitable for us. This subscription-based model is not the best for OEM vendors. Another annoying thing about Elasticsearch is its roadmap. We are developing something, and then they say, "Okay. We have removed that feature in this release," and when we are adapting to that release, they say, "Okay. We have removed that one as well." We don't know what they will remove in the next version. They are not looking for backward compatibility from the customers' perspective. They just remove a feature and say, "Okay. We've removed this one." In terms of new features, it should have an ODBC driver so that you can search and integrate this product with existing BI tools and reporting tools. Currently, you need to go for third parties, such as CData, in order to achieve this. ODBC driver is the most important feature required. Its Community Edition does not have security features. For example, you cannot authenticate with a username and password. It should have security features. They might have put it in the latest release."
"The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing."
"Having some kind of prebuilt client UI will be helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is a free, open source software (FOSS) tool, which means no cost on the front-end. There are no free lunches in this world though. Technical skill to implement and support are costly on the back-end with ELK, whether you train/hire internally or go for premium services from Elastic."
"We are using the free version and intend to upgrade."
"The solution is free."
"We use the free version for some logs, but not extensive use."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
"We are using the open-sourced version."
"An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk."
"The price could be better."
"The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available. I have to renew it annually. The price of Lucidworks can be difficult for some of my clients to afford."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
40%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ELK Elasticsearch?
Logsign provides us with the capability to execute multiple queries according to our requirements. The indexing is very high, making it effective for storing and retrieving logs. The real-time anal...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
I don't know about pricing. That is dealt with by the sales team and our account team. I was not involved with that.
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
I found an issue with Elasticsearch in terms of aggregation. They are good, yet the rules written for this are not really good. There is a maximum of 10,000 entries, so the limitation means that if...
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
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Sample Customers

T-Mobile, Adobe, Booking.com, BMW, Telegraph Media Group, Cisco, Karbon, Deezer, NORBr, Labelbox, Fingerprint, Relativity, NHS Hospital, Met Office, Proximus, Go1, Mentat, Bluestone Analytics, Humanz, Hutch, Auchan, Sitecore, Linklaters, Socren, Infotrack, Pfizer, Engadget, Airbus, Grab, Vimeo, Ticketmaster, Asana, Twilio, Blizzard, Comcast, RWE and many others.
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Nike, Target, Verizon, Hortonworks
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