Algolia vs Solr comparison

Algolia

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Solr

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Algolia and Solr based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Algolia

Ranking in Search as a Service

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Solr

Ranking in Search as a Service

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Search as a Service category, the market share of Algolia is 4.3% and it decreased by 24.8% compared to the previous year. The market share of Solr is 5.7% and it decreased by 29.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

CaioKaminari

Senior Data Product Manager at MadeiraMadeira

Sep 29, 2022

Focused capabilities, specialists in what they do, with consistent stability

Our primary use case is for our website because we are an e-commerce website and application store. We need to use a solution to browse our products, search for our products and sell them I have meetings with consultants every week and they are helping us to implement and understand a variety of…

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reviewer1368636

Data Scientist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Jul 8, 2020

Good indexing and decent stability, but requires more documentation

The solution's grammar and syntax should be easier. It does take a little bit of effort to use and understand the solution. It would help us a lot if the solution offered up more documentation or tutorials to help with training or troubleshooting. MongoDB can realize more complex operations than Solr can. Solr should add some more complex operations to the database to at least bring it up to MondoDB's level of functionality. It would make it more competitive. There might be some compatibility issues between the data types within Solr. This needs to be improved. Solr has a schema that we have to load the schema as an HTML, or SML file. This usually needs to be done by our engineers. It should be easier to do without needing too much technical background.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."

"It's scalable. It can be scaled massively."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform a natural language search."

"One of the best aspects of the solution is the indexing. It's already indexed to all the fields in the category. We don't need to spend so much extra effort to do the indexing. It's great."

"Sharding data, Faceting, Hit Highlighting, parent-child Block Join and Grouping, and multi-mode platform are all valuable features."

"It has improved our search ranking, relevancy, search performance, and user retention."

Cons

"Joining is quite complex."

"I think they could improve the analytics view."

"With increased sharding, performance degrades. Merger, when present, is a bottle-neck. Peer-to-peer sync has issues in SolrCloud when index is incrementally updated."

"The performance for this solution, in terms of queries, could be improved."

"SolrCloud stability, indexing and commit speed, and real-time Indexing need improvement."

"It does take a little bit of effort to use and understand the solution. It would help us a lot if the solution offered up more documentation or tutorials to help with training or troubleshooting."

"Encountered issues with both master-slave and SolrCloud. Indexing and serving traffic from same collection has very poor performance. Some components are slow for searching."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are currently on a contract with Algolia for licensing and price."

"The only costs in addition to the standard licensing fees are related to the hardware, depending on whether it is cloud-based, or on-premise."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Algolia?

The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Algolia?

We are currently on a contract with Algolia for licensing and price.

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What needs improvement with Algolia?

The challenge is that Algolia doesn't support joining between multiple indexes, similar to how you would join tables in SQL. This limitation makes it difficult to manage and search across large dat...

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Overview

Algolia helps businesses across industries quickly create relevant, scalable, and lightning fast search and discovery experiences. Algolia’s mission is to make every search interaction meaningful and rewarding. Our hosted platform reduces the complexity of building relevant digital experiences. More than 7,500 companies like WW, Lacoste, Twitch, Medium and Stripe rely on Algolia’s enterprise-grade APIs to manage over 60 billion search queries a month.

Founded in 2012, Algolia is backed by $74M in funding from Accel Partners, Alven Capital, Point Nine Capital and Storm Ventures. The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York, and Atlanta. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.

Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.

Sample Customers

Birchbox, Twitch, Lacoste, Stripe, WW, Medium, Cousera, National Geographic, Zendesk, Magento

eHarmony, Sears, StubHub, Best Buy, Instagram, Netflix, Disney, AT&T, eBay, AOL, Bloomberg, Comcast, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, MTV Networks

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