Algolia Review – A Hosted Search API Reviewed

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Algolia

Algolia is a hosted, full-text, numerical, and faceted search engine capable of delivering real-time results in milliseconds. Built for developers, Algolia provides a powerful API that lets you quickly and seamlessly implement real-time search within your website or application, without dealing with or having to maintain infrastructure. Algolia offers a 14-day free trial for new users with no credit card required, and they even offer a Hacker plan that is 100% free for up to 10,000 records and 100,000 operations per month. To better acquaint ourselves with the Algolia service, we’ll create a simple application to guide you through the process of constructing a search experience for your users. For this guide, you’ll need an Algolia account, which can be created by following their signup process and selecting a datacenter.

#Search API #Custom Search #Custom Search Engine 3 social mentions

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Apache Solr

If you’re not 100% satisfied with Algolia, there are always alternative methods to accomplish similar results, such as Solr (open-source & self-hosted) or ElasticSearch (open-source or hosted). Both of these are built on Apache Lucene, and their search syntax is very similar. Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides a fully managed Elasticsearch service which makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch for log analytics, full-text search, application monitoring, and more. Amazon Elasticsearch offers built-in integrations with Kibana, Logstash, and AWS services including Amazon Kinesis Firehose, AWS Lambda, and Amazon CloudWatch so that you can go from raw data to actionable insights quickly.

#Custom Search Engine #Custom Search #Search Engine 17 social mentions

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ElasticSearch

If you’re not 100% satisfied with Algolia, there are always alternative methods to accomplish similar results, such as Solr (open-source & self-hosted) or ElasticSearch (open-source or hosted). Both of these are built on Apache Lucene, and their search syntax is very similar. Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides a fully managed Elasticsearch service which makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch for log analytics, full-text search, application monitoring, and more. Amazon Elasticsearch offers built-in integrations with Kibana, Logstash, and AWS services including Amazon Kinesis Firehose, AWS Lambda, and Amazon CloudWatch so that you can go from raw data to actionable insights quickly.

#Search Engine #Custom Search Engine #Custom Search 17 social mentions