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."The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is its ability to receive data quickly. You can access your data easily in a short time."
"CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application."
"The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly."
"It's the best solution for any company. It has a hosting ERP system for any task. AWS is stable. AWS is more flexible and its elastic concept is a new concept. AWS is also very secure. It has many layers of security, like hardware security and software security. This is a big issue."
"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."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"AWS CloudSearch's documentation isn't very clear. Also, the on-premise version of the solution is less stable than the cloud version."
"A reboot should be enhanced."
"I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"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."
"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."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
Algolia is ranked 7th in Search as a Service with 1 review while Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 12 reviews. Algolia is rated 9.0, while Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Algolia writes "Focused capabilities, specialists in what they do, with consistent stability". 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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