Create Powerful, Enterprise-wide Cognitive Search Solutions
We support both Elastic Cloud (Hosted Elasticsearch) and on-premise Elasticsearch. If you are evaluating enterprise search, you should consider Elasticsearch. Below is a comparison with SharePoint:
Elasticsearch can be a great platform for enterprise search when coupled with BA Insight’s products:
- SmartHub –provides a modern, responsive search UI, personalization, and cognitive search capabilities.
- Indexing Connectors –Our secure connectors bring content from over 60 enterprise systems into the Elasticsearch index, providing unified views of all knowledge assets.
- AutoClassifier – Auto-tagging, metadata generation, and text analytics feed Elasticsearch’s schema, filtering, and faceted navigation, increasing findability.
BA Insight’s products also combine with Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud to create best-of-breed cognitive search
Benefits of Elasticsearch
- Sophisticated search capabilities: including real-time indexing, geosearch, pattern search, and search on machine data.
- High Degree of Control: including direct control of relevance ranking, query processing, and indexing.
- Open Source: provides assurance of future continuity as well as the ability to change or fix any aspect of the search engine as required.
- Scale-up: no limits on size of documents or number of items indexed; pay as you grow. If you are hitting the limits of SharePoint search, you can use Elasticsearch to supplement your existing search and present users with a single unified result set through SmartHub .
- Fast answers: Elasticsearch is noted for quick response times and is notably faster than SharePoint search.
- Managed Service (with Elastic Cloud): results in lower cost and less work by eliminating the need to deal with servers, software updates, backups, etc. Elastic Cloud is available on Amazon Web Services and also on the Google Cloud Platform.
Elasticsearch | SharePoint Server 2013 or 2016 Search | |
Advanced Matching Power |
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Result Counts | Exact | Approximate |
Geosearch | Y | N |
Regular Expression Matching | Y | N |
Complex Data Types | Y | N |
Fuzzy Search | Y | N |
Scale and Performance |
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Amount of External Content | Unlimited < 2.1 billion items per shard |
400 million items / <20 million items per partition |
Maximum Document Size / Characters Indexed |
2 GB / 2.1 billion characters |
64 MB / 2 million characters |
Query Latency | 50-200 ms | 200-800 ms |
Indexing Latency | Seconds (real-time) / minutes (bulk) |
>20 minutes |
Extensibility |
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Query Enhancement | Open | Sealed |
Matching, Ranking, and Indexing | Open Source | Sealed |