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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Elasticsearch

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AElasticsearch is an enterprise search tool from Elastic in Mountain View, California.

    $16

    per month

    Geckoboard

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.

    $35

    per month

    Pricing
    ElasticsearchGeckoboard
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $16.00
    per month
    Gold
    $19.00
    per month
    Platinum
    $22.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Starter
    $35
    per month
    Team
    $159
    per month
    Team Plus
    $275
    per month
    Company
    $599
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ElasticsearchGeckoboard
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ElasticsearchGeckoboard
    Considered Both Products
    Elastic
    No answer on this topic
    Geckoboard
    Chose Geckoboard
    I find Geckoboard and Klipfolio to be in parallel in terms of performance and presentation. I will say that Klipfolio pulls slightly ahead as it allows for custom branding (great when sharing data with external stakeholders) and having access/edit control based on roles.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    82%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    ElasticsearchGeckoboard
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Elasticsearch and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Elasticsearch
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Elasticsearch and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Elasticsearch
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Elasticsearch and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Elasticsearch
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Elasticsearch and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Elasticsearch
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Elasticsearch and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Elasticsearch
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings6.12 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Elasticsearch and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Elasticsearch
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Elasticsearch and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Elasticsearch
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    ElasticsearchGeckoboard
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Watson Discovery
    Score9 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Amazon CloudSearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ElasticsearchGeckoboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (48 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ElasticsearchGeckoboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Elastic
    Elasticsearch is a really scalable solution that can fit a lot of needs, but the bigger and/or those needs become, the more understanding & infrastructure you will need for your instance to be running correctly. Elasticsearch is not problem-free - you can get yourself in a lot of trouble if you are not following good practices and/or if are not managing the cluster correctly. Licensing is a big decision point here as Elasticsearch is a middleware component - be sure to read the licensing agreement of the version you want to try before you commit to it. Same goes for long-term support - be sure to keep yourself in the know for this aspect you may end up stuck with an unpatched version for years.
    Incentivized
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    Geckoboard
    Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Elastic
    • As I mentioned before, Elasticsearch's flexible data model is unparalleled. You can nest fields as deeply as you want, have as many fields as you want, but whatever you want in those fields (as long as it stays the same type), and all of it will be searchable and you don't need to even declare a schema beforehand!
    • Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, is super strong financially and they have a great team of devs and product managers working on Elasticsearch. When I first started using ES 3 years ago, I was 90% impressed and knew it would be a good fit. 3 years later, I am 200% impressed and blown away by how far it has come and gotten even better. If there are features that are missing or you don't think it's fast enough right now, I bet it'll be suitable next year because the team behind it is so dang fast!
    • Elasticsearch is really, really stable. It takes a lot to bring down a cluster. It's self-balancing algorithms, leader-election system, self-healing properties are state of the art. We've never seen network failures or hard-drive corruption or CPU bugs bring down an ES cluster.
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    Geckoboard
    • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
    • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
    • Sleek, dark UI.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Elastic
    • Joining data requires duplicate de-normalized documents that make parent child relationships. It is hard and requires a lot of synchronizations
    • Tracking errors in the data in the logs can be hard, and sometimes recurring errors blow up the error logs
    • Schema changes require complete reindexing of an index
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    Geckoboard
    • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
    • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
    • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Elastic
    We're pretty heavily invested in ElasticSearch at this point, and there aren't any obvious negatives that would make us reconsider this decision.
    Incentivized
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    Geckoboard
    My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Elastic
    To get started with Elasticsearch, you don't have to get very involved in configuring what really is an incredibly complex system under the hood. You simply install the package, run the service, and you're immediately able to begin using it. You don't need to learn any sort of query language to add data to Elasticsearch or perform some basic searching. If you're used to any sort of RESTful API, getting started with Elasticsearch is a breeze. If you've never interacted with a RESTful API directly, the journey may be a little more bumpy. Overall, though, it's incredibly simple to use for what it's doing under the covers.
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    Geckoboard
    With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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    Support Rating
    Elastic
    We've only used it as an opensource tooling. We did not purchase any additional support to roll out the elasticsearch software. When rolling out the application on our platform we've used the documentation which was available online. During our test phases we did not experience any bugs or issues so we did not rely on support at all.
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    Geckoboard
    The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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    Implementation Rating
    Elastic
    Do not mix data and master roles. Dedicate at least 3 nodes just for Master
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    Geckoboard
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Elastic
    As far as we are concerned, Elasticsearch is the gold standard and we have barely evaluated any alternatives. You could consider it an alternative to a relational or NoSQL database, so in cases where those suffice, you don't need Elasticsearch. But if you want powerful text-based search capabilities across large data sets, Elasticsearch is the way to go.
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    Geckoboard
    Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Elastic
    • We have had great luck with implementing Elasticsearch for our search and analytics use cases.
    • While the operational burden is not minimal, operating a cluster of servers, using a custom query language, writing Elasticsearch-specific bulk insert code, the performance and the relative operational ease of Elasticsearch are unparalleled.
    • We've easily saved hundreds of thousands of dollars implementing Elasticsearch vs. RDBMS vs. other no-SQL solutions for our specific set of problems.
    Incentivized
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    Geckoboard
    • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
    • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
    • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Geckoboard Screenshots

    Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.