We performed a comparison between Amazon Kendra and Solr 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."We have good use cases where stability is everything. So it's a stable solution."
"Provides flexibility to tune the relevance and ranking of results."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform a natural language search."
"Sharding data, Faceting, Hit Highlighting, parent-child Block Join and Grouping, and multi-mode platform are all valuable features."
"It has improved our search ranking, relevancy, search performance, and user retention."
"One of the best aspects of the solution is the indexing. It's already indexed to all the fields in the category. We don't need to spend so much extra effort to do the indexing. It's great."
"There are some token limits."
"The time it takes for indexing documents could be reduced."
"With increased sharding, performance degrades. Merger, when present, is a bottle-neck. Peer-to-peer sync has issues in SolrCloud when index is incrementally updated."
"SolrCloud stability, indexing and commit speed, and real-time Indexing need improvement."
"Encountered issues with both master-slave and SolrCloud. Indexing and serving traffic from same collection has very poor performance. Some components are slow for searching."
"It does take a little bit of effort to use and understand the solution. It would help us a lot if the solution offered up more documentation or tutorials to help with training or troubleshooting."
"The performance for this solution, in terms of queries, could be improved."
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Amazon Kendra is ranked 2nd in Search as a Service with 2 reviews while Solr is ranked 8th in Search as a Service. Amazon Kendra is rated 7.6, while Solr is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Kendra writes "Kendra has a nice AI built-in, enhancing the search experience and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Solr writes "Good indexing and decent stability, but requires more documentation". Amazon Kendra is most compared with Azure Search, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon AWS CloudSearch and Elastic Search, whereas Solr is most compared with Amazon AWS CloudSearch, Elastic Search, Azure Search, Algolia and Amazon Athena.
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