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BA Insight vs Elastic Search comparison

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Categories and Ranking

BA Insight
Ranking in Indexing and Search
19th
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 (8th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of BA Insight is 2.6%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.6%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.6%
BA Insight2.6%
Other87.8%
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."
"Elasticsearch includes a graphical user interface (GUI) called Kibana, and the GUI features are extremely beneficial to us."
"This product has notably improved the way we store and use logs, from having a more user-friendly, centralized solution (for those who just needed a quick glance, without being masters of sed and awk) to implementing various mechanisms for machine-learning from our logs, and sending alerts for anomalies."
"The best feature of Elastic Search that I appreciate is its monitoring capability."
"What I appreciate about Elastic Search is that the best features include the ability to search through very big documents and index and search through them really fast."
"Logsign provides us with the capability to execute multiple queries according to our requirements. The indexing is very high, making it effective for storing and retrieving logs. The real-time analytics with Elastic benefits us due to the huge traffic volume in our organization, which reaches up to 60,000 requests per second. With logs of approximately 25 GB per day, manually analyzing traffic behavior, payloads, headers, user agents, and other details is impractical."
"Elastic Search, being a vector database, quickly indexes data, allowing for searches based on text and data directly, which I found fascinating."
"It is stable."
"Elastic Enterprise Search is a nonstructured database that can manage large amounts of nonstructured data."
 

Cons

"The preview feature made the results page take too long to load."
"I see that there are areas in Elastic Search that have room for improvement, such as user documentation and onboarding processes."
"Elasticsearch could improve by honoring Unix environmental variables and not relying only on those provided by Java (e.g. installing plugins over the Unix http proxy)."
"The different applications need to be individually deployed."
"There is another solution I'm testing which has a 500 record limit when you do a search on Elastic Enterprise Search. That's the only area in which I'm not sure whether it's a limitation on our end in terms of knowledge or a technical limitation from Elastic Enterprise Search. There is another solution we are looking at that rides on Elastic Enterprise Search. And the limit is for any sort of records that you're doing or data analysis you're trying to do, you can only extract 500 records at a time. I know the open-source nature has a lot of limitations, Otherwise, Elastic Enterprise Search is a fantastic solution and I'd recommend it to anyone."
"New Relic could be more flexible, similar to Elasticsearch."
"We have an issue with the volume of data that we can handle."
"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."
"I have not been using the solution for many years to know exactly the improvements needed. However, they could simplify how the YML files have to be structured properly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We are using the Community Edition because Elasticsearch's licensing model is not flexible or suitable for us. They ask for an annual subscription. We also got the development consultancy from Elasticsearch for 60 days or something like that, but they were just trying to do the same trick. That's why we didn't purchase it. We are just using the Community Edition."
"The solution is not expensive because users have the option of choosing the managed or the subscription model."
"It can be expensive."
"The pricing model is questionable and needs to be addressed because when you would like to have the security they charge per machine."
"The price of Elasticsearch is fair. It is a more expensive solution, like QRadar. The price for Elasticsearch is not much more than other solutions we have."
"Elastic Search is open-source, but you need to pay for support, which is expensive."
"We use the free version for some logs, but not extensive use."
"There is a free version, and there is also a hosted version for which you have to pay. We're currently using the free version. If things go well, we might go for the paid version."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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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