Kibana vs. Rational BI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kibana
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Kibana allows users to visualize Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack so you can do anything from tracking query load to understanding the way requests flow through your apps.N/A
Rational BI
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…
$0
single user
Pricing
KibanaRational BI
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
single user
Professional
$129
single user
Enterprise
Varies
single user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
KibanaRational BI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details—Additional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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Community Pulse
KibanaRational BI
Features
KibanaRational BI
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
7.3
5 Ratings
12% below category average
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.02 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.35 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.73 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
6.3
5 Ratings
24% below category average
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
4% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.75 Ratings7.73 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.04 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages5.01 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration5.64 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
6.8
2 Ratings
20% below category average
Rational BI
9.0
4 Ratings
8% above category average
Publish to Web8.02 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Report Versioning6.02 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling6.02 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers6.02 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
6.7
4 Ratings
18% below category average
Rational BI
8.2
4 Ratings
2% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.74 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.02 Ratings8.33 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.02 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
KibanaRational BI
Small Businesses
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 9.6 out of 10
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 9.6 out of 10
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Dataiku
Dataiku
Score 8.4 out of 10
Dataiku
Dataiku
Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
KibanaRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(5 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(2 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
KibanaRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
Elastic
Kibana is indeed a powerful tool and has many use cases especially in environments that rely heavily on real-time log analysis and visualisation. Kibana’s ability to handle large volumes of log data and present it in an accessible, searchable format is invaluable. We use Kibana to monitor security related issues and it proactively alerts our Slack channels about any anomality or issues.
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Rational BI
Definitely well suited for small companies, but again many of their competitors are also well suited in this segment. We were in general happy with the solution provided, but I'm not blown away by their solution or support. If you want to get more data-driven visual boards with data displayed in nice graphics is in my opinion a good start, and here Rational BI delivers what it should.
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Pros
Elastic
  • Fast searches with powerful index.
  • Beautiful data visualizations.
  • Real-time observability.
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Rational BI
  • Arrange data.
  • Dashboard.
  • Automatic reports.
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Cons
Elastic
  • Some performance issues with large datasets.
  • Linking to dashboards makes extremely long urls.
  • Lack of reports.
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Rational BI
  • Not seeing anything at this time, comprehensive product.
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Usability
Elastic
Its usability is generally good and it provides teams with a basic to intermediate understanding about data visualization. It is very user-friendly when it comes to creating dashboards. The UI is very good and simple. Its integration with other tools for alerting and reporting is amazing. But its advance features have a learning curve and a first timer needs some time to use the advance features.
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Rational BI
Overall Rational BI is a valuable enterprise reporting tool for any data driven organization. It offers great depth and breadth of features for reporting and analytics that can lead to better business outcomes. Its easy to use and highly configurable to evolve to changing reporting needs of organizations of any scale.
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Support Rating
Elastic
We did not use the official Kibana support. Documentation was easy enough to follow.
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Rational BI
I haven't used the support myself, but my colleagues have been satisfied with the support. As I have understood from my colleagues the support is as you could expect. Still, the documentation could be better and that could avoid the need to contact their support, but overall we're still happy with the support as well.
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Alternatives Considered
Elastic
Kibana is free; it was the first and only thing we've tried in this area.
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Rational BI
Rational BI allows a deeper data analysis with respect to the other software I experimented with. The velocity to perform the analysis is similar to the other one. The predictive analysis could be very useful, but at the moment I do not use it in my activities. Dashboards are nice and easy to understand.
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Return on Investment
Elastic
  • Issues that affect checkout experiences for customers are able to be prioritized and solved quickly.
  • We are able to more efficiently use resources due to the automation of reporting alerts. Decreasing employee resources needed.
  • Visualization allows us to quickly share issues and explain to coworkers in order to escalate issues that can cost our bottom line.
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Rational BI
  • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
  • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
  • Single pane of management.
  • Ease of use.
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ScreenShots

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