We performed a comparison between Elastic Search and Weka 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."Gives us a more user-friendly, centralized solution (for those who just needed a quick glance, without being masters of sed and awk) as well as the ability to implement various mechanisms for machine-learning from our logs, and sending alerts for anomalies."
"Elasticsearch includes a graphical user interface (GUI) called Kibana. The GUI features are extremely beneficial to us."
"The solution offers good stability."
"The solution has great scalability."
"The flexibility and the support for diverse languages that it provides for searching the database are most valuable. We can use different languages to query the database."
"The observability is the best available because it provides granular insights that identify reasons for defects."
"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 analytics with Elastic benefits us due to the huge traffic volume in our organization, which reaches up to 60,000 requests per second. With logs of approximately 25 GB per day, manually analyzing traffic behavior, payloads, headers, user agents, and other details is impractical."
"The forced merge and forced resonate features reduce the data size increasing reliability."
"With clustering, if it's a yes, it's a yes, if it's a no, it's a no. It gives you a 100% level of accuracy of a model that has been trained, and that is in most cases, usually misleading. Classification is highly valuable when done as opposed to clustering."
"Weka's best features are its user-friendly graphic interface interpretation of data sets and the ease of analyzing data."
"It is a stable product."
"The path of machine learning in classification and clustering is useful. The GUI can get you results. No programming is needed. No need to write down your script first or send to your model or input your data."
"I mainly use this solution for the regression tree, and for its association rules. I run these two methodologies for Weka."
"Weka is a very nice tool, it needs very small requirements. If I want to implement something in Python, I need a lot of memory and space but Weka is very lightweight. Anyone can implement any kind of algorithm, and we can show the results immediately to the client using the one-page feature. The client always wants to know the story. They want the result."
"It doesn’t cost anything to use the product."
"Working with complicated algorithms in huge datasets is really easy in Weka."
"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."
"We have an issue with the volume of data that we can handle."
"I would like to see more integration for the solution with different platforms."
"The documentation regarding customization could be better."
"The solution has quite a steep learning curve. The usability and general user-friendliness could be improved. However, that is kind of typical with products that have a lot of flexibility, or a lot of capabilities. Sometimes having more choices makes things more complex. It makes it difficult to configure it, though. It's kind of a bitter pill that you have to swallow in the beginning and you really have to get through it."
"There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system. It could be simplified in the user interface."
"It should be easier to use. It has been getting better because many functions are pre-defined, but it still needs improvement."
"They could improve some of the platform's infrastructure management capabilities."
"If there are a lot more lines of code, then we should use another language."
"The product is good, but I would like it to work with big data. I know it has a Spark integration they could use to do analysis in clusters, but it's not so clear how to use it."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The visualization of Weka is subpar and could improve. Machine learning and visualization do not work well together. For example, we want to know how we can we delete empty cells or how can we fill in the empty cells without cleaning the data system and putting it together."
"Weka is a little complicated and not necessarily suited for users who aren't skilled and experienced in data science."
"Weka could be more stable."
"While it might offer insights for basic warehouse tasks, it falls short of deeper understanding and results."
"In terms of scalability, I think Weka is not prepared to handle a large number of users."
Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Indexing and Search with 59 reviews while Weka is ranked 2nd in Data Mining with 14 reviews. Elastic Search is rated 8.2, while Weka is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Weka writes "Open source, good for basic data mining use cases except for the visualization results". Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Azure Search, Pinecone and Amazon Kendra, whereas Weka is most compared with KNIME, IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM SPSS Modeler, Oracle Advanced Analytics and SAS Analytics. See our Elastic Search vs. Weka report.
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