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."The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."
"The most valuable features are its user-friendly interface and seamless navigation."
"It is stable."
"It is highly valuable because of its simplicity in maintenance, where most tasks are handled for you, and it offers a plethora of built-in features."
"The products comes with REST APIs."
"I have found the sort capability of Elastic very useful for allowing us to find the information we need very quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the Discovery option for the visualization of logs on a GPU instead of on the server."
"The tool's stability and performance are good."
"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."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"It should be easier to use. It has been getting better because many functions are pre-defined, but it still needs improvement."
"Kibana should be more friendly, especially when building dashboards."
"Technical support should be faster."
"The GUI is the part of the program which has the most room for improvement."
"The reports could improve."
"It was not possible to use authentication three years back. You needed to buy the product's services for authentication."
"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."
"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."
Algolia is ranked 7th in Search as a Service with 1 review while Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Search as a Service with 59 reviews. Algolia is rated 9.0, while Elastic Search is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Algolia writes "Focused capabilities, specialists in what they do, with consistent stability". 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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