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."
"It provides good access capabilities to various platforms."
"The search functionality time has been reduced to a few milliseconds."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"The amount of flexibility and agility is really assuring."
"Creates indexers to get data from different data sources."
"The product is pretty resilient."
"The customer engagement was good."
"Offers a tremendous amount of flexibility and scalability when integrating with applications."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"The initial setup is not as easy as it should be."
"For availability, expanding its use to all Azure datacenters would be helpful in increasing awareness and usage of the product."
"The pricing is room for improvement."
"It would be good if the site found a better way to filter things based on subscription."
"The solution's stability could be better."
"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."
"The after-hour services are slow."
"They should add an API for third-party vendors, like a security operating center or reporting system, that would be a big improvement."
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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