We performed a comparison between Algolia and Azure Search 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."
"Creates indexers to get data from different data sources."
"The product is extremely configurable, allowing you to customize the search experience to suit your needs."
"The amount of flexibility and agility is really assuring."
"Because all communication is done via the REST API, data is retrieved quickly in JSON format to reduce overhead and latency."
"The search functionality time has been reduced to a few milliseconds."
"It provides good access capabilities to various platforms."
"Azure Search is well-documented, making it easy to understand and implement."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"The after-hour services are slow."
"The solution's stability could be better."
"The initial setup is not as easy as it should be."
"They should add an API for third-party vendors, like a security operating center or reporting system, that would be a big improvement."
"The pricing is room for improvement."
"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."
"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."
Algolia is ranked 7th in Search as a Service with 1 review while Azure Search is ranked 6th in Search as a Service with 8 reviews. Algolia is rated 9.0, while Azure Search is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Algolia writes "Focused capabilities, specialists in what they do, with consistent stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Search writes "Good performance for standard faceted search and full-text search". Algolia is most compared with Amazon AWS CloudSearch, Amazon Kendra, Elastic Search and Solr, whereas Azure Search is most compared with Amazon Kendra, Elastic Search, Amazon Athena and Amazon AWS CloudSearch.
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