Datafari vs Elasticsearch
Datafari
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Elasticsearch
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| Figure | Datafari | Elasticsearch |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $825/mo | $99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 8 |
| Spec score · Enterprise Search Software | 8.7 (#3) | 8.4 (#5) |
| Spec score · Search Databases | 8.5 (#7) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Founded | 2011 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Cagnes-sur-Mer, France | Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Mountain View, California, United States |
| Integrations | Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks and email. | Elastic describes 350+ integrations and supports ingestion through Elastic Agent, connectors, APIs, language clients, and Logstash. |
| Support | The Community plan lists customer support as DIY, while the Initial plan lists customer support as included. | Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer four support tiers depending on subscription tier. |
Plans
Elasticsearch
- BasicPriced on request
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- Platinum$131 a month
- Enterprise$184 a month
- Elastic Cloud HostedPrice not published
- Elastic Cloud ServerlessPrice not published
- Self-managed ElasticsearchPriced on request
In their own words
Datafari
Datafari is an open-source enterprise search solution made by France Labs for finding company data across sources and formats. Its crawlers collect content and metadata, with configurable processing filters and crawl-load management. Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks, and email. A plugin mechanism allows connectors for additional sources.
Search features include multilingual support, spellchecking, suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and autocomplete. Relevance can use document content and metadata, query-specific boosts, entity recognition, and user context such as history, clicks, and department. Datafari supports hybrid and vector search, faceted search, and a REST query interface. Neural Datafari adds vector search and retrieval-augmented answers grounded in documents the user is authorized to access. The free Community plan is aimed at developers and DIY users; its support is DIY. The Initial plan costs $9,900 a year and includes customer support.
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.