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Splunk User Behavior Analytics vs Weka comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (14th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (4th)
Weka
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Data Mining (2nd), Anomaly Detection Tools (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Splunk User Behavior Analytics and Weka aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Splunk User Behavior Analytics is designed for User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and holds a mindshare of 10.1%, down 11.6% compared to last year.
Weka, on the other hand, focuses on Data Mining, holds 21.2% mindshare, up 19.8% since last year.
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

Hamada-Elewa - PeerSpot reviewer
Decreases the false positives but storage model complexity hampers efficiency
I recommend it to my customers, but I'm a salesman. I am not implementing it myself It decreases the false positives, so it will decrease the time consumed by the operation team to work on Splunk. The most effective one is the integration with other vendors. This is the most attractive one.…
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 feature is the ability to search through a large amount of data."
"It's easily scalable."
"The solution is fast, flexible, and easy to use."
"Splunk is more user-friendly than some competing solutions we tried."
"The solution is extremely scalable. Our customers are regularly scaling up after installing Splunk."
"It is a solution that helps test and measure customer satisfaction."
"The most effective one is the integration with other vendors."
"The most valuable features are its data aggregation and the ability to automatically identify a number of threats, then suggest recommended actions upon them."
"It is a stable product."
"I mainly use this solution for the regression tree, and for its association rules. I run these two methodologies for Weka."
"It doesn’t cost anything to use the product."
"The interface is very good, and the algorithms are the very best."
"In Weka, anyone can access the program without being a programmer, which is a good feature since the entry cost is very low."
"With clustering, if it's a yes, it's a yes, if it's a no, it's a no. It gives you a 100% level of accuracy of a model that has been trained, and that is in most cases, usually misleading. Classification is highly valuable when done as opposed to clustering."
"Weka is a very nice tool, it needs very small requirements. If I want to implement something in Python, I need a lot of memory and space but Weka is very lightweight. Anyone can implement any kind of algorithm, and we can show the results immediately to the client using the one-page feature. The client always wants to know the story. They want the result."
"There are many options where you can fill all of the data pre-processing options that you can implement when you're importing the data. You can also normalize the data and standardize it in an easier way."
 

Cons

"They should work to add more built-in correlation searches and more use cases based on worldwide customer experiences. They need more ready-made use cases."
"The correlation engine should have persistent and definable rules."
"Currently, a lot of network operations need improvement. We still need people to handle incidents. Our vision is to leverage status and convert it directly from the network devices. It would be ideal if we could take action using APIs and API code and remove manual processes."
"The price of Splunk UBA is too high."
"It could be easier to scale the solution if you are using it on-premise, not in the cloud."
"The initial setup was complex because some of the configurations that we required needed customization."
"In the future I would like to see simplified statistics and analytical threats."
"It would be good if the solution had an analytics tool that allowed us to analyze the data without writing specific queries."
"If you have one missing value in your dataset and this missing value belongs to a specific attribute and the attribute is a numeric attribute and there is only one missing data, whenever you import this data, the problem is that Weka cannot understand that this is a numeric field. It converts everything into a string, and there is no way to convert the string into numerical math. It's really very complicated."
"The filter section lacks some specific transformation tools. If you want to change a variable from a numeric variable to a categorical variable, you don't have a feature that can enable you to change a variable from a numeric variable to a categorical variable."
"A few people said it became slow after a while."
"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."
"If there are a lot more lines of code, then we should use another language."
"Weka could be more stable."
"In terms of scalability, I think Weka is not prepared to handle a large number of users."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing varies based on the packages you choose and the volume of your usage."
"I hope we can increase the free license to be more than 5 gig a day. This would help people who want to introduce a POC or a demo license for the solution."
"There are additional costs associated with the integrator."
"My biggest complaint is the way they do pricing... You can never know the pricing for next year. Every single time you adjust to something new, the price goes up. It's impossible to truly budget for it. It goes up constantly."
"I am not aware of the price, but it is expensive."
"The licensing costs is around 10,000 dollars."
"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."
"We use the free version now. My faculty is very small."
"Currently, I am using an open-source version so I don't know much about the price of this solution."
"The solution is free and open-source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
19%
Educational Organization
14%
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 Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
The solution's most valuable feature is Splunk queries, which allow us to query the logs and analyze the attack vectors.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
It's too expensive. If you need observability, you will pay for the whole package of observability. But if you need anything in security, you will pay for the whole package, then you can select the...
What needs improvement with Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
Enhancing the storage model that they are using is necessary. It's too much. The number of VMs, the total number of VMs, is overwhelming. The system is stable, but for the storage issues requiring ...
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...
 

Also Known As

Caspida, Splunk UBA
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Sample Customers

8 Securities, AAA Western, AdvancedMD, Amaya, Cerner Corporation, CJ O Shopping, CloudShare, Crossroads Foundation, 7-Eleven Indonesia
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