We performed a comparison between Azure Search, Elastic Search, and Solr 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."The amount of flexibility and agility is really assuring."
"The search functionality time has been reduced to a few milliseconds."
"The product is extremely configurable, allowing you to customize the search experience to suit your needs."
"Azure Search is well-documented, making it easy to understand and implement."
"The product is pretty resilient."
"Creates indexers to get data from different data sources."
"It provides good access capabilities to various platforms."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is quite scalable and this is one of its advantages."
"We had many reasons to implement Elasticsearch for search term solutions. Elasticsearch products provide enterprise landscape support for different areas of the company."
"The most valuable feature is the out of the box Kibana."
"Helps us to store the data in key value pairs and, based on that, we can produce visualisations in Kibana."
"The solution has good security features. I have been happy with the dashboards and interface."
"It is stable."
"Gives us a more user-friendly, centralized solution (for those who just needed a quick glance, without being masters of sed and awk) as well as the ability to implement various mechanisms for machine-learning from our logs, and sending alerts for anomalies."
"The search speed is most valuable and important."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform a natural language search."
"It would be good if the site found a better way to filter things based on subscription."
"Adding items to Azure Search using its .NET APIs sometimes throws exceptions."
"For availability, expanding its use to all Azure datacenters would be helpful in increasing awareness and usage of the product."
"The after-hour services are slow."
"For SDKs, Azure Search currently offers solutions for .NET and Python. Additional platforms would be welcomed, especially native iOS and Android solutions for mobile development."
"They should add an API for third-party vendors, like a security operating center or reporting system, that would be a big improvement."
"The solution's stability could be better."
"The pricing is room for improvement."
"Dashboards could be more flexible, and it would be nice to provide more drill-down capabilities."
"It was not possible to use authentication three years back. You needed to buy the product's services for authentication."
"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve its SSL integration easier. We should not need to go to the back-end servers to do configuration, we should be able to do it on the GUI."
"There is an index issue in which the data starts to crash as it increases."
"The different applications need to be individually deployed."
"There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system. It could be simplified in the user interface."
"I don't see improvements at the moment. The current setup is working well for me, and I'm satisfied with it. Integrating with different platforms is also fine, and I'm not recommending any changes or enhancements right now."
"They're making changes in their architecture too frequently."
"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."
"SolrCloud stability, indexing and commit speed, and real-time Indexing need improvement."
"The performance for this solution, in terms of queries, could be improved."
"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."
"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."
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