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."
"You can perform SQL queries in S3 using Athena."
"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."
"The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's Logstash. The tool is fast and customizable. You can build beautiful dashboards with it. It is useful and reliable."
"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."
"The forced merge and forced resonate features reduce the data size increasing reliability."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is user behavior analysis."
"The solution offers good stability."
"The AI-based attribute tagging is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are the data store and the X-pack extension."
"Search is really powerful."
"I would like to use Spark or Python-based queries in Athena."
"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."
"The solution should include a better API for query services."
"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."
"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."
"Elastic Enterprise Search's tech support is good but it could be improved."
"While integrating with tools like agents for ingesting data from sources like firewalls is valuable, I believe prioritizing improvements to the core product would be more beneficial."
"They could improve some of the platform's infrastructure management capabilities."
"We'd like to see more integration in the future, especially around service desks or other ITSM tools."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
"Elastic Search could benefit from a more user-friendly onboarding process for beginners."
"It was not possible to use authentication three years back. You needed to buy the product's services for authentication."
"There is another solution I'm testing which has a 500 record limit when you do a search on Elastic Enterprise Search. That's the only area in which I'm not sure whether it's a limitation on our end in terms of knowledge or a technical limitation from Elastic Enterprise Search. There is another solution we are looking at that rides on Elastic Enterprise Search. And the limit is for any sort of records that you're doing or data analysis you're trying to do, you can only extract 500 records at a time. I know the open-source nature has a lot of limitations, Otherwise, Elastic Enterprise Search is a fantastic solution and I'd recommend it to anyone."
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, Azure Search and Solr, whereas Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Azure Search, Pinecone and Amazon Kendra. See our Amazon Athena vs. Elastic Search report.
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