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Elastic Search vs Lucidworks comparison

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Categories and Ranking

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)
Lucidworks
Ranking in Indexing and Search
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.6%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucidworks is 5.3%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.6%
Lucidworks5.3%
Other85.1%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

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.
reviewer1679460 - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Manager at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Multiple connectors available, simple to manage, and easy to use for all users
The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box. It is simple to manage and easier to use for all users The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing. I have been using Lucidworks for approximately five years. Lucidworks is…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution offers good stability."
"The fact that you can dump any type of format in the database without any specific reformatting is fantastic."
"The most valuable features are the ease and speed of the setup."
"We had many reasons to implement Elasticsearch for search term solutions. Elasticsearch products provide enterprise landscape support for different areas of the company."
"The best feature of Elastic Search that I appreciate is its monitoring capability."
"The solution is valuable for log analytics."
"Aggregation is faster than querying directly from a database, like Postgres or Vertica, and it's much faster if I want to do aggregation, which allows me to store logs and find anomalies effectively."
"You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used."
"We have a single powerful search solution, which provides search capabilities for all our needs."
"Provides the ability to control how indexing and searching perform and controls how the scoring for search results is done, letting you customize the search experience according to your needs."
"The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box, and it is simple to manage and easier to use for all users."
 

Cons

"We'd like more user-friendly integrations."
"The solution itself needs improvement. There is an index issue in which the data starts to crash as it increases."
"The deployment was a struggle as I faced challenges with bash commands and understanding how to run things on my system."
"There were also some difficult times with parallel and point-in-time interfaces, so better documentation could help, particularly more example-driven content."
"Pagination in Elastic Search is very slow."
"There are a few things that did not work for us. When doing a search in a bigger setup, with a huge amount of data where there are several things coming in, it has to be on top of the index that we search."
"Apart from the good things, what I would like to see improved or enhanced in Elastic Search is the storage cost."
"There are challenges with performance management and scalability."
"The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available."
"The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing."
"Having some kind of prebuilt client UI will be helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are paying $1,500 a month to use the solution. If you want to have endpoint protection you need to pay more."
"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."
"An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk."
"The premium license is expensive."
"The basic license is free, but it comes with a lot of features that aren't free. With a gold license, we get active directory integration. With a platinum license, we get alerting."
"Although the ELK Elasticsearch software is open-source, we buy the hardware."
"The tool is an open-source product."
"​The pricing and license model are clear: node-based model."
"The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available. I have to renew it annually. The price of Lucidworks can be difficult for some of my clients to afford."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise50
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Questions from the Community

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...
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
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Sample Customers

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.
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Nike, Target, Verizon, Hortonworks
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