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."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."
"The forced merge and forced resonate features reduce the data size increasing reliability."
"ELK Elasticsearch is 100% scalable as scalability is built into the design"
"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."
"We had many reasons to implement Elasticsearch for search term solutions. Elasticsearch products provide enterprise landscape support for different areas of the company."
"X-Pack provides good features, like authorization and alerts."
"The solution is valuable for log analytics."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Microsoft FAST is quite robust. Our clients are quite happy with it."
"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve its SSL integration easier. We should not need to go to the back-end servers to do configuration, we should be able to do it on the GUI."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve the report templates."
"The pricing of this product needs to be more clear because I cannot understand it when I review the website."
"We'd like more user-friendly integrations."
"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."
"This product could be improved with additional security, and the addition of support for machine learning devices."
"There are potential improvements based on our client feedback, like unifying the licensing cost structure."
"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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