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Elastic Search vs Luigi's Box comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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 (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (6th)
Luigi's Box
Ranking in Indexing and Search
4th
Average Rating
9.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.8%, down from 22.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Luigi's Box is 2.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.8%
Luigi's Box2.0%
Other88.2%
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.
William Berthoud - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant sea at Aw Marketing consulting
Higher conversion rates with an advanced algorithm and intuitive interface
An area for improvement is the interface language, as our team mainly speaks French. Offering a French-language option would significantly enhance accessibility and streamline usage. Additionally, simplifying interactions with the Luigi's Box team, such as through localized support or tools tailored to non-English-speaking users, would improve collaboration. These changes would ensure a more seamless integration of the solution into our daily operations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"My favorite feature is the ease of use, particularly in how you integrate the agent; I've been using it since version 7, and we're on version 9 now, and I've seen the progress from using Beats to using the agent, making it so simple today to enroll a server with the Elastic Agent."
"The AI-based attribute tagging is a valuable feature."
"What I like the most about Elastic Search is that I can store my data and search throughout my document."
"Dashboard is very customizable."
"The solution is valuable for log analytics."
"A good use case is saving metadata of your systems for data cataloging. Various systems, like those opened in metadata and similar applications, use Elasticsearch to store their text data."
"From a technical point of view, there are no significant issues recalled as Elastic Search has been absolutely awesome for this use case and covers 100% of the needs."
"Elastic Search is the perfect tool for scalability."
"Its seamless integration with existing platforms streamlines workflows, making it an indispensable tool for businesses of all sizes."
"Luigi's Box was easy to implement and allowed me to get started quickly."
"Luigi's Box has brought substantial enhancements to our company, particularly by enriching the search experience on our website. Through its powerful search capabilities, our customers can effortlessly locate their desired products, resulting in heightened satisfaction and conversion rates."
"We value the smart search feature the most since it immediately offers relevant results to customers, even if they don't know the exact name of the product."
"With its advanced algorithm and intuitive interface, this tool makes setting up the product feed simple and efficient."
"Within the dashboard, the application offers data analysis that works with different views of the customer data. This data is graphically processed and thus does not need to be further modified for better interpretation."
"The most useful feature of the Luigi's Box product is the extensive analytics. We can see in beautiful graphs what exactly visitors to our e-shop searched for."
"Luigi's Box increased conversion rates and improved user experience on the website."
 

Cons

"I think Elastic Search could be improved by introducing more AI features, particularly for complex queries and aggregator functions to enhance usability and readability."
"In Elastic Search, the improvements I would like to see require many resources."
"It needs email notification, similar to what Logentries has. Because of the notification issue, we moved to Logentries, as it provides a simple way to receive notification whenever a server encounters an error or unexpected conditions (which we have defined using RegEx​)."
"I want the solution to improve the graph feature because it is a little bit poor."
"Elasticsearch should have simpler commands for window filtering."
"The documentation regarding customization could be better."
"The solution's integration and configuration are not easy. Not many people know exactly what to do."
"I found an issue with Elasticsearch in terms of aggregation. They are good, yet the rules written for this are not really good."
"An area for improvement is the interface language, as our team mainly speaks French."
"Enhancing the reporting and analytics capabilities would provide us with deeper insights into user behavior and search trends, helping us optimize our offerings further."
"Deeper use of AI and ML - although with the advent of AI, new features have been implemented into Luigi's Box, there is still room for deeper integration."
"When setting up banner ads in the search window, it takes a long time for the banners to appear."
"We have been using the service for more than two years, and our experience is only positive."
"Integration with GA4 and a plugin integrating with Google Looker Studio would be very useful."
"Our products are really diverse. Not everything can be done automatically, and manual intervention is required."
"It could simplify the implementation on the website."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is free."
"The premium license is expensive."
"To access all the features available you require both the open source license and the production license."
"We use the free version for some logs, but not extensive use."
"The solution is affordable."
"It can be expensive."
"We are using the open-sourced version."
"I rate Elastic Search's pricing an eight out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
40%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Religious Institution
7%
Construction Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise50
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise1
 

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Luigi's Box?
When implementing, make the most of the knowledge of the person at Luigi's Box who will support you. They have a lot of experience.
What needs improvement with Luigi's Box?
Integration with GA4 and a plugin integrating with Google Looker Studio would be very useful. Currently, I collect data on searches in two places and I cannot conveniently combine them. The efficie...
What is your primary use case for Luigi's Box?
I mainly use Luigi's Box to manage suggestions in the search box on my e-commerce site. This tool gives me easy control over the content that is displayed to customers and allows me to shape the co...
 

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.
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