We performed a comparison between Elastic Search and Loom Systems based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Indexing and Search solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the data store and the X-pack extension."
"There's lots of processing power. You can actually just add machines to get more performance if you need to. It's pretty flexible and very easy to add another log. It's not like 'oh, no, it's going to be so much extra data'. That's not a problem for the machine. It can handle it."
"The most valuable features are the ease and speed of the setup."
"I like how it allows us to connect to Kafka and get this data in a document format very easily. Elasticsearch is very fast when you do text-based searches of documents. That area is very good, and the search is very good."
"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."
"It is easy to scale with the cluster node model."
"The initial installation and setup were straightforward."
"Elasticsearch includes a graphical user interface (GUI) called Kibana. The GUI features are extremely beneficial to us."
"You can develop your own apps within Loom, and they can be configured very simply."
"The solution is absolutely scalable. If an organization needs to expand it out they definitely can."
"What I like best about Loom Systems is that you can use it for infrastructure monitoring. I also like that it's a flexible solution."
"The RFS portion of the solution is the product's most valuable feature."
"Technical support should be faster."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
"There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system. It could be simplified in the user interface."
"We'd like to see more integration in the future, especially around service desks or other ITSM tools."
"Elastic Search needs to improve its technical support. It should be customer-friendly and have good support."
"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."
"Elastic Search could benefit from a more user-friendly onboarding process for beginners."
"They're making changes in their architecture too frequently."
"The change management within the solution needs to be improved. There needs to be more process automation."
"The discovery and mapping still takes a lot of human intervention, it's quite resource heavy,"
"The reporting is a bit weak. They should work to improve this aspect of the product."
"What's lacking in Loom Systems is the level of priority for each incident. For example, after implementation and there was a huge impact on the client, and the client comes back to you and says that there's an incident, that there needs to be an immediate resolution for it, you'll see severity one, severity two, etc., in Loom Systems, rather than priority levels. It would be better if the incidents can be defined as low priority, medium priority, or high priority."
Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Indexing and Search with 59 reviews while Loom Systems is ranked 58th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 4 reviews. Elastic Search is rated 8.2, while Loom Systems is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Loom Systems writes "Simple and very effective for developing and configuring apps with great integration capabilities". Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Pinecone, Azure Search and Amazon Kendra, whereas Loom Systems is most compared with VMware Aria Operations for Applications and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring. See our Elastic Search vs. Loom Systems report.
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