Alternatives to Elastic
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If you're comparing Elastic with other companies in Observability and Databases, start here. These are the 36 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the Elastic profile.
Observability: Elastic's main category
19 companies sit alongside Elastic here, busiest first.
- Datadog#1 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Datadog is an American observability and security company founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc and headquartered in New York City. Its SaaS platform provides…
- 38 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 community thread
- New Relic#4 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
New Relic is an observability company that provides a SaaS platform for monitoring applications, infrastructure, logs, browsers, mobile apps and AI workloads. Its all-in-one…
- 31 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#20 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Databases
- Dynatrace#2 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Dynatrace is an observability and application security company founded in Linz, Austria, in 2005 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its AI-powered platform covers…
- 32 stories in the last 90 days
- Cribl#19 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Cribl is a telemetry data management company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco. Its products, including Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, Cribl Search and Cribl Lake, let…
- 28 stories in the last 90 days
- LogicMonitor#12 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
LogicMonitor is a SaaS observability company whose LM Envision platform monitors hybrid IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, cloud services, containers, applications…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- SolarWinds#13 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
SolarWinds is an IT management and observability software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 1999. It sells SolarWinds Observability for SaaS and self-hosted…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Grafana Labs#5 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the open source visualisation and dashboarding tool, and the LGTM observability stack of Loki, Grafana, Tempo and Mimir. It sells…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 community thread
- Honeycomb#7 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Honeycomb is a US observability company whose platform lets engineering teams query high-cardinality, high-dimensionality event and trace data to debug production systems. It is…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Coralogix#14 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Coralogix is an observability platform company founded in 2014 by Ariel Assaraf. It provides a SaaS platform for logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring and security data…
- 14 stories in the last 90 days
- BigPanda#16 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
BigPanda is a US AIOps company founded in 2012. Its platform uses machine learning and AI to correlate alerts from monitoring, observability and change tools into incidents…
- 12 stories in the last 90 days
- PagerDuty#15 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
PagerDuty is a digital operations management company whose PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides incident management, on-call scheduling and alerting, AIOps event correlation…
- 13 stories in the last 90 days
- ServiceNow#9 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
ServiceNow is a US enterprise software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2004 by Fred Luddy. Its ServiceNow AI Platform automates workflows across IT…
Evidence is still building for ServiceNow.
- Sumo Logic#11 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Sumo Logic is a US cloud-native log analytics company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It provides a SaaS platform for log management, observability…
Evidence is still building for Sumo Logic.
- Checkly#18 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Checkly is a synthetic monitoring and API monitoring company founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, Germany. Its platform uses Playwright-based browser checks and API checks defined…
- 3 stories in the last 90 days
- Chronosphere#8 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Chronosphere is a cloud native observability company founded in 2019 by Martin Mao and Rob Skillington, creators of the M3 metrics platform at Uber. It offers the Chronosphere…
Evidence is still building for Chronosphere.
- IBM#10 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
Also in Databases
- Kentik#17 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Kentik is a US network observability company whose SaaS platform analyses flow data, device metrics, cloud flow logs, routing and synthetic test results to help teams monitor…
Evidence is still building for Kentik.
- Splunk#3 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Elastic
Splunk is a US software company, founded in 2003 in San Francisco, that makes data platforms for security and observability. Its products include Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud…
Evidence is still building for Splunk.
Databases
17 companies sit alongside Elastic here, busiest first. 2 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Amazon Web Services#3 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
- Google Cloud#4 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
- SAP#6 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
SAP is a German enterprise software company, SAP SE, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and founded in 1972. It sells enterprise resource planning software, notably SAP S/4HANA…
- 47 stories in the last 90 days
- ClickHouse#14 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
ClickHouse, Inc. is the company behind ClickHouse, the open-source column-oriented database for real-time analytics originally developed at Yandex. Formed as an independent…
- 46 stories in the last 90 days
- Neo4j#12 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Neo4j is a graph database and analytics company whose flagship Neo4j graph database stores and queries connected data using the Cypher query language. Its offerings include…
- 31 stories in the last 90 days
- Supabase#17 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Supabase is an open source backend development platform founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. Built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database per project, it adds…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- PlanetScale#18 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
PlanetScale is a cloud database company offering managed MySQL built on Vitess, the open-source sharding system originally developed at YouTube, and managed PostgreSQL. It…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Redis#8 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Redis is the software company behind the Redis in-memory data store, founded in 2011 as Garantia Data and later known as Redis Labs. It sells Redis Cloud, a fully managed database…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- SingleStore#10 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
SingleStore is a database company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2011 as MemSQL. Its distributed SQL database combines transactional and analytical…
- 28 stories in the last 90 days
- InfluxData#16 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
InfluxData is a US software company that created InfluxDB, an open source time series database, and the Telegraf data collection agent. It sells InfluxDB Cloud and self-managed…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- MariaDB#20 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
MariaDB is the company behind the commercial MariaDB Enterprise Platform, built around MariaDB Server, an open-source relational database created as a fork of MySQL. It sells…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Yugabyte#15 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Yugabyte is a US database company founded in 2016 by Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan and Mikhail Bautin, former Facebook engineers, and headquartered in Sunnyvale…
- 10 stories in the last 90 days
- Pinecone#19 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Pinecone is a vector database company that provides a fully managed, serverless vector database for storing and searching embeddings in AI applications such as retrieval-augmented…
- 14 stories in the last 90 days
- Cockroach Labs#11 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Cockroach Labs is a US database company founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York. It develops CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database with PostgreSQL wire compatibility…
- 7 stories in the last 90 days
- Couchbase#9 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Couchbase is a NoSQL database company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, formed in 2011 through the merger of Membase and CouchOne. It develops Couchbase Server, the…
Evidence is still building for Couchbase.
- MongoDB#7 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
MongoDB is a database software company best known for MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database, and MongoDB Atlas, its fully managed multicloud database service with integrated…
Evidence is still building for MongoDB.
- Oracle#1 leader in DatabasesCompare with Elastic
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Elastic. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Elastic's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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