Elasticsearch is a great product!
December 02, 2019

Elasticsearch is a great product!

Mark Freeman, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is being used to store and search architecture standards, guidance, and other documents pertaining to software architectures. When used with the Spring Java Framework, it is extremely easy to set up custom queries.
  • Search queries based on Java class member names.
  • Very detailed queries through the standard library.
  • Extremely fast.
  • Easy to index.
  • Ability to search content when data only in fields.
  • Query syntax could be made simpler.
  • Auto sharding.
  • Was able to demo its background use at a conference quickly.
  • Was able to index 100s of documents quickly.
  • Easy to create queries.
  • SharePoint seems antiquated.
  • Amazon Elastic File System is hard to find things.
  • Google Search Appliance does ranking poorly.
I have never used their support, but online documentation was very good.

Do you think Elasticsearch delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Elasticsearch's feature set?

Yes

Did Elasticsearch live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Elasticsearch go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Elasticsearch again?

Yes

Not great for highly structured data where SQL thrives, e.g., heavy use of JOINs.
Not great for image data.