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."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is the cloud aspect. I do not need to have the physical infrastructure, everything is in the cloud."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"AWS CloudSearch's best features are good performance under high CPU and memory use, and ease of deployment and scaling."
"Document indexing, text-based search API, and Geospatial searches are all good features."
"It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
"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."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"A reboot should be enhanced."
"The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer."
"Maybe they are common in Egypt, but you should make a request on Amazon to create a function to monitor CPU performance, memory, and files. It is very difficult in AWS. I would tell them it should be simple, just drag and drop. I think they could develop this option so we can drag and drop to monitor performance of the processor and memory."
"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."
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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