G2 Vendor Directory

Apache Lucene vs. Elasticsearch

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricApache Lucene

by The Apache Software Foundation

Elasticsearch

by Elastic

Overall rating3.94.5
Review count11315
Ease of use8.68.7
Ease of setup7.78.7
Quality of support8.18.8
Meets requirements8.49.1
NPS27.27272767.973856
Small Business18.2%30.3%
Mid-Market27.3%36.3%
Enterprise54.5%33.4%
Total page views671,562
Total LLM citations5314,644

Apache Lucene

Apache Lucene, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology.

Pros

    Elasticsearch

    Build next generation search experiences for your customers and employees that support your organization’s technology objectives. Elasticsearch gives developers a flexible toolkit to build AI-powered search applications with an extensible platform that also provides out of the box capabilities Save development cycles and get upgraded search to market faster. Elasticsearch is the world’s most popular search engine, backed by a robust developer community.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Speed
    • Fast Search
    • Results
    • Features
    • Search Efficiency