Elastic Search vs Microsoft FAST comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (10th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (1st)
Microsoft FAST
Ranking in Indexing and Search
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Indexing and Search category, the market share of Elastic Search is 28.0% and it increased by 14.5% compared to the previous year. The market share of Microsoft FAST is 6.1% and it decreased by 54.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search
Unique Categories:
Cloud Data Integration
2.1%
Search as a Service
9.1%
No other categories found
 

Featured Reviews

Aria Amini - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 16, 2022
Can search large amounts of data across multiple systems, and is easily scalable, but needs better automapping
The primary use case of this solution is to search large amounts of data across multiple systems The solution has improved our organization by allowing us to quickly search data from multiple systems saving valuable time. The most valuable features are full-text search, the ability to index…
JJ
Dec 6, 2020
Robust solution with good value
Microsoft FAST is quite robust. Our clients are quite happy with it. For other users who already have a solution in place, we recommend Microsoft FAST because it is more compatible and you can organize the solution with Microsoft components. If you are with any other third party, there could be a chance that the required output is not what you would expect. But with Microsoft, it will work better. It is compatible with the older generation systems, so you can offer it. On a scale of one to ten, I would give Microsoft FAST an eight because I'm quite comfortable with it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"A good use case is saving metadata of your systems for data cataloging. Various systems, like those opened in metadata and similar applications, use Elasticsearch to store their text data."
"The UI is very nice, and performance wise it's quite good too."
"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."
"The tool's stability and performance are good."
"Elasticsearch includes a graphical user interface (GUI) called Kibana. The GUI features are extremely beneficial to us."
"Implementing the main requirements regarding my support portal​."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the opportunity to search behind and between different logs."
"Microsoft FAST is quite robust. Our clients are quite happy with it."
 

Cons

"It was not possible to use authentication three years back. You needed to buy the product's services for authentication."
"The price could be better. Kibana has some limitations in terms of the tablet to view event logs. I also have a high volume of data. On the initialization part, if you chose Kibana, you'll have some limitations. Kibana was primarily proposed as a log data reviewer to build applications to the viewer log data using Kibana. Then it became a virtualization tool, but it still has limitations from a developer's point of view."
"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."
"Performance improvement could come from skipping background refresh on search idle shards (which is already being addressed in the upcoming seventh version)."
"It is hard to learn and understand because it is a very big platform. This is the main reason why we still have nothing in production. We have to learn some things before we get there."
"The pricing of this product needs to be more clear because I cannot understand it when I review the website."
"Dashboards could be more flexible, and it would be nice to provide more drill-down capabilities."
"We'd like more user-friendly integrations."
"If there is any change in a system or a configuration or an update, we might face some issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It can be expensive."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
"The pricing model is questionable and needs to be addressed because when you would like to have the security they charge per machine."
"There is a free version, and there is also a hosted version for which you have to pay. We're currently using the free version. If things go well, we might go for the paid version."
"To access all the features available you require both the open source license and the production license."
"we are using a licensed version of the product."
"We use the free version for some logs, but not extensive use."
"The solution is affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
21%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ELK Elasticsearch?
Logsign provides us with the capability to execute multiple queries according to our requirements. The indexing is very high, making it effective for storing and retrieving logs. The real-time anal...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
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 ...
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Also Known As

Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
MS FAST
 

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Sample Customers

T-Mobile, Adobe, Booking.com, BMW, Telegraph Media Group, Cisco, Karbon, Deezer, NORBr, Labelbox, Fingerprint, Relativity, NHS Hospital, Met Office, Proximus, Go1, Mentat, Bluestone Analytics, Humanz, Hutch, Auchan, Sitecore, Linklaters, Socren, Infotrack, Pfizer, Engadget, Airbus, Grab, Vimeo, Ticketmaster, Asana, Twilio, Blizzard, Comcast, RWE and many others.
Moffitt Cancer Center, Hitachi Solutions, Manupatra Information Solutions, Unique World, _KODA AUTO a.s., MindTree Ltd, Mississippi Department of Transportation
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