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."
"Document indexing, text-based search API, and Geospatial searches are all good features."
"It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"A reboot should be enhanced."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"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."
"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."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"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."
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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