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's scalable. It can be scaled massively."
"The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly."
"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."
"Document indexing, text-based search API, and Geospatial searches are all good features."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application."
"AWS CloudSearch's best features are good performance under high CPU and memory use, and ease of deployment and scaling."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"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."
"AWS CloudSearch's documentation isn't very clear. Also, the on-premise version of the solution is less stable than the cloud version."
"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."
"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."
"We'd like to see more database features."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
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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