We performed a comparison between Elastic Search and Microsoft FAST based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, IBM, OpenText and others in Indexing and Search."The search speed is most valuable and important."
"The products comes with REST APIs."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It provides deep visibility into your cloud and distributed applications, from microservices to serverless architectures. It quickly identifies and resolves the root causes of issues, like gaining visibility into all the cloud-based and on-prem applications."
"Implementing the main requirements regarding my support portal."
"The most valuable feature for us is the analytics that we can configure and view using Kibana."
"The initial setup is very easy for small environments."
"The ability to aggregate log and machine data into a searchable index reduces time to identify and isolate issues for an application. Saves time in triage and incident response by eliminating manual steps to access and parse logs on separate systems, within large infrastructure footprints."
"Microsoft FAST is quite robust. Our clients are quite happy with it."
"Both the graph feature and the reporting feature are a little bit lacking. The alerting also needs to be improved."
"The UI point of view is not very powerful because it is dependent on Kibana."
"They could improve some of the platform's infrastructure management capabilities."
"Elastic Enterprise Search's tech support is good but it could be improved."
"It should be easier to use. It has been getting better because many functions are pre-defined, but it still needs improvement."
"This product could be improved with additional security, and the addition of support for machine learning devices."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. We faced a few issues."
"Elastic Enterprise Search can improve by adding some kind of search that can be used out of the box without too much struggle with configuration. With every kind of search engine, there is some kind of special function that you need to do. A simple out-of-the-box search would be useful."
"If there is any change in a system or a configuration or an update, we might face some issues."
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Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Indexing and Search with 59 reviews while Microsoft FAST is ranked 4th in Indexing and Search. Elastic Search is rated 8.2, while Microsoft FAST is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft FAST writes "Robust solution with good value". Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Azure Search, Pinecone and Amazon Kendra, whereas Microsoft FAST is most compared with Lookeen, Lucene and IBM Watson Discovery.
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