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."
"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."
"It's easy to set up the product."
"Amazon Athena is very stable. I never had any issues with it. The dashboarding tool is okay."
"You can perform SQL queries in S3 using Athena."
"The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth."
"The initial setup is very easy for small environments."
"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."
"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."
"Data indexing of historical data is the most beneficial feature of the product."
"The solution offers good stability."
"Search is really powerful."
"It gives us the possibility to store and query this data and also do this efficiently and securely and without delays."
"The most valuable features are the detection and correlation features."
"I would like to use Spark or Python-based queries in Athena."
"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."
"The solution should include a better API for query services."
"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."
"You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the 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."
"There is a lack of technical people to develop, implement and optimize equipment operation and web queries."
"They're making changes in their architecture too frequently."
"Elastic Enterprise Search's tech support is good but it could be improved."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
"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."
"The documentation regarding customization could be better."
"The solution has quite a steep learning curve. The usability and general user-friendliness could be improved. However, that is kind of typical with products that have a lot of flexibility, or a lot of capabilities. Sometimes having more choices makes things more complex. It makes it difficult to configure it, though. It's kind of a bitter pill that you have to swallow in the beginning and you really have to get through it."
"There is an index issue in which the data starts to crash as it increases."
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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