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BA Insight vs Elastic Search comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

BA Insight
Ranking in Indexing and Search
20th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
100
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of BA Insight is 2.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.8%, down from 22.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.8%
BA Insight2.5%
Other87.7%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

it_user265773 - PeerSpot reviewer
GDS Search Services Leader, Knowledge Services at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Refiners help to easily narrow down results based on metadata applied to content. Previews allow users to take action from search results without opening the document.
The preview feature made the results page take too long to load. It also took a long time to generate document previews. Randomly, it would show “cannot load preview”. I do not know the reason, but that happened a lot and we had to turn this feature off. Preview load time could be reduced. We saw that it takes forever to load a document preview, and at times, after waiting, it just gave a ‘cannot load preview error’.
reviewer2817942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Logging and vector search have transformed observability and empowered reliable ai agents
Elastic Search is not specifically being used for certain purposes. I deploy Elastic Search database on the cloud and use cloud services so that nobody can attack. However, I do not use Elastic Search to resolve attack issues. The basic main purpose of Elastic Search, as of now, I feel it can do more in the AI area. Sometime I saw that when I am developing RAG and have to generate the embeddings, which I call metadata, sometimes it tries to fail. That durability or issue handling should be improved, but apart from that, I did not find anything as of now. As per my use case, whatever I am using seems pretty good. Apart from that, some definitely improvement will be there. One improvement is that it should be faster. Whenever I am searching any logs, it takes much time. For example, if I open my log in Notepad or a similar tool, I can search the text within a second. With Elastic Search, it takes a little bit of time, ten to fifteen seconds. That can be improved. Sometimes, engineers take time to assign when I create a ticket.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Refiners help to easily narrow down results based on metadata applied to content, and the preview feature helps users to take action from the search results page without opening the documents."
"We are developing a SIEM application that is similar to QRadar, ArcSight, or Splunk, and this application uses Elasticsearch as its search engine because we want to retrieve information fast."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it; that's really handy, and product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used."
"Overall, considering key aspects like cost, learning curve, and data indexing architecture, Elasticsearch is a very good tool."
"On the subject of pricing, Elastic Search is very cost-efficient, as you can host it on-premises, which would incur zero cost, or take it as a SaaS-based service, where the expenses remain minimal."
"This has improved our organization because we articulated Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub with amazing simplicity in the scaling up of our service."
"I appreciate the indexing capabilities and the speed of indexing in their product, which demonstrates how quickly logs are collected and stored."
"The solution is quite scalable and this is one of its advantages."
 

Cons

"The preview feature made the results page take too long to load."
"It was not possible to use authentication three years back. You needed to buy the product's services for authentication."
"The pricing of this product needs to be more clear because I cannot understand it when I review the website."
"The different applications need to be individually deployed."
"We had initially planned to expand use of ELK because of its cheap price and the services that are included, but given the difficulty with implementation we've decided to go with Nagios instead."
"I would rate technical support from Elastic Search as three out of ten. The main issue is a general sum of all factors."
"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."
"It should be easier to use. It has been getting better because many functions are pre-defined, but it still needs improvement."
"Elastic Enterprise Search's tech support is good but it could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We are using the open-sourced version."
"It can move from $10,000 US Dollars per year to any price based on how powerful you need the searches to be and the capacity in terms of storage and process."
"To access all the features available you require both the open source license and the production license."
"The cost varies based on factors like usage volume, network load, data storage size, and service utilization. If your usage isn't too extensive, the cost will be lower."
"We are using the free version and intend to upgrade."
"ELK has been considered as an alternative to Splunk to reduce licensing costs."
"I rate Elastic Search's pricing an eight out of ten."
"It can be expensive."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise50
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
The pricing for Elastic Search is mainly budgeted according to the organization budget, so we take it as a yearly subscription, and that is acceptable since we do get a fair discount when we are ta...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
When we get the logs, it is mostly about how we edit the configurations and how we make changes according to the requirements of our organization. In these cases, the logs sometimes can be a bit in...
What is your primary use case for ELK Elasticsearch?
I am the Elastic Search admin for my organization, and we are using Elastic Search to handle the traffic to GCP. The monitoring of all the clusters and all the deployments are quite good, and compa...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

BA Insight Enterprise Search Essentials, BA Insight Enterprise Search
Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

AARP, Amgen, Blank Rome, Chevron, Australian Government, EY, Hogan Lovells, Keurig Green Mountain, OFWAT, Pfizer, Stanford University, US Army, White & Case
T-Mobile, Adobe, Booking.com, BMW, Telegraph Media Group, Cisco, Karbon, Deezer, NORBr, Labelbox, Fingerprint, Relativity, NHS Hospital, Met Office, Proximus, Go1, Mentat, Bluestone Analytics, Humanz, Hutch, Auchan, Sitecore, Linklaters, Socren, Infotrack, Pfizer, Engadget, Airbus, Grab, Vimeo, Ticketmaster, Asana, Twilio, Blizzard, Comcast, RWE and many others.
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