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Elastic Search vs Weka comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Search
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (1st), Cloud Data Integration (11th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (1st)
Weka
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Data Mining (2nd), Anomaly Detection Tools (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Elastic Search and Weka aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Elastic Search is designed for Indexing and Search and holds a mindshare of 28.0%, up 24.6% compared to last year.
Weka, on the other hand, focuses on Data Mining, holds 20.5% mindshare, up 20.1% since last year.
Indexing and Search
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

Saurav Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides us with the capability to execute multiple queries according to our requirements
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 analytics with Elastic benefits us due to the huge traffic volume in our organization, which reaches up to 60,000 requests per second. With logs of approximately 25 GB per day, manually analyzing traffic behavior, payloads, headers, user agents, and other details is impractical.
AwaisAnwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Open source, good for basic data mining use cases except for the visualization results
I haven't found it particularly useful. It lacks state-of-the-art algorithms and impressive outcomes. While it might offer insights for basic warehouse tasks, it falls short of deeper understanding and results. Moreover, a new user interface would be great, especially for beginners. Something that guides them through the available tools and helps them achieve their goals. I haven't seen anything like that myself, though maybe it's there and I missed it.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features are its user-friendly interface and seamless navigation."
"It is stable."
"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."
"Using real-time search functionality to support operational decisions has been helpful."
"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."
"I have found the sort capability of Elastic very useful for allowing us to find the information we need very quickly."
"The most valuable features are the detection and correlation features."
"The most valuable feature is the out of the box Kibana."
"In Weka, anyone can access the program without being a programmer, which is a good feature since the entry cost is very low."
"The interface is very good, and the algorithms are the very best."
"Working with complicated algorithms in huge datasets is really easy in Weka."
"Weka eliminates the need for coding, allowing you to easily set parameters and complete the majority of the machine learning task with just a few clicks."
"It doesn’t cost anything to use the product."
"It is a stable product."
"Weka's best features are its user-friendly graphic interface interpretation of data sets and the ease of analyzing data."
"I mainly use this solution for the regression tree, and for its association rules. I run these two methodologies for Weka."
 

Cons

"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)."
"It was not possible to use authentication three years back. You needed to buy the product's services for authentication."
"Enterprise scaling of what have been essentially separate, free open source software (FOSS) products has been a challenge, but the folks at Elastic have published new add-ons (X-Pack and ECE) to help large companies grow ELK to required scales."
"It is hard to learn and understand because it is a very big platform. This is the main reason why we still have nothing in production. We have to learn some things before we get there."
"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."
"There are potential improvements based on our client feedback, like unifying the licensing cost structure."
"There is an index issue in which the data starts to crash as it increases."
"Kibana should be more friendly, especially when building dashboards."
"The visualization of Weka is subpar and could improve. Machine learning and visualization do not work well together. For example, we want to know how we can we delete empty cells or how can we fill in the empty cells without cleaning the data system and putting it together."
"If there are a lot more lines of code, then we should use another language."
"In terms of scalability, I think Weka is not prepared to handle a large number of users."
"A few people said it became slow after a while."
"Within the basic Weka tool, I don't see many tools that are available where we can analyze and visualize the data that well."
"While it might offer insights for basic warehouse tasks, it falls short of deeper understanding and results."
"The product is good, but I would like it to work with big data. I know it has a Spark integration they could use to do analysis in clusters, but it's not so clear how to use it."
"Weka is a little complicated and not necessarily suited for users who aren't skilled and experienced in data science."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is free."
"We are using the free open-sourced version of this solution."
"The premium license is expensive."
"We are paying $1,500 a month to use the solution. If you want to have endpoint protection you need to pay more."
"This product is open-source and can be used free of charge."
"The solution is affordable."
"The solution is less expensive than Stackdriver and Grafana."
"To access all the features available you require both the open source license and the production license."
"As far as I know, Weka is a freeware tool, and I am not aware if they have an online solution or if it is a commercial product."
"The solution is free and open-source."
"Currently, I am using an open-source version so I don't know much about the price of this solution."
"We use the free version now. My faculty is very small."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
University
19%
Educational Organization
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 am not directly involved with pricing or setup costs. While I know a portion is open-source, a paid version might be necessary.
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
An improvement would be to have an interface that allows easier navigation and tracing of logs. The current system requires manually inputting dates to verify alerts. A visual timeline that pinpoin...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Weka?
Weka is free and open-source software. That is why I used it over KNIME.
What needs improvement with Weka?
I haven't found it particularly useful. It lacks state-of-the-art algorithms and impressive outcomes. While it might offer insights for basic warehouse tasks, it falls short of deeper understanding...
 

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.
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