Brilliant search powerhouse
January 06, 2020

Brilliant search powerhouse

Maria Sousa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Elasticsearch

We're using Elasticsearch for indexing most of our data, allowing for blazing-fast searches. We store massive time-series data volumes from thousands of IoT sensors that Elasticsearch handles brilliantly, making metrics available in realtime. We're also running dashboards and canvas in Kibana, fed from Elasticsearch, which gets updated in realtime.
  • Performance.
  • Ease of set-up.
  • Tuning for ingress performance can be tricky.
  • Merged documents can become a bottleneck.
  • It's simple and the fast set-up spares you lots of money on the set-up stage.
  • Immediate results give back a lot without spending too much.
Elasticsearch is very well packed in a broad set of features, ranging from customization capabilities to security and add-ons, and also comes with a great visualization tool named Kibana. Most of the competitors are strong in some of these areas, but I know of no other that's so well balanced as Elasticsearch is.
Elasticsearch support has been great in helping us on the rare occasions when we actually needed help.

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

Elasticsearch really excels in search performance, so if you have massive amounts of data you need to search from, Elasticsearch is surely a great fit. I woud advise against using it as the main database or the only source of truth, because data corruption can happen in rare cases, and in that case a reindexing will have to take place.