We performed a comparison between Algolia and Amazon AWS CloudSearch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and others in Search as a Service."It's scalable. It can be scaled massively."
"The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."
"Document indexing, text-based search API, and Geospatial searches are all good features."
"AWS CloudSearch's best features are good performance under high CPU and memory use, and ease of deployment and scaling."
"It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly."
"CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application."
"Latlon data type only supports single value per document. All other types support multiple values. We faced issues with this because we had scenarios where, for each document, we needed to store multiple latlon values for different geographical locations."
"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"Regarding the period of propagation on CDN servers, sometimes we update photos or files and we don't see the update instantly. We need to wait for sometime."
"Index cleanup is sometimes painful. No easy way to clean indexes or a bulk of documents. Full indexing or regeneration of entire indexes sometimes gets stuck. In one instance, we had to delete the entire index and re-create it."
"I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds."
"The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer."
Algolia is ranked 7th in Search as a Service with 2 reviews while Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 12 reviews. Algolia is rated 8.6, while Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Algolia writes "Documentation is the best part and worth the money if the search is the core feature of your product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon AWS CloudSearch writes "A reasonably priced solution that provides scalability, stability, reliability, and security". Algolia is most compared with Amazon Kendra, Elastic Search, Azure Search and Solr, whereas Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most compared with Solr, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Athena, Elastic Search and Azure Search.
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