Xapian VS Azure Cognitive Search

Xapian Reviews

Azure Cognitive Search Reviews

Xapian mentions (7)

• Making a huge collection of PDF's searchable (They are OCR'd already)

  Recoll is free/open source (GPL) that can index PDFs and search them very quickly. It uses Xapian under the hood. I have over 165,000 documents indexed on an old laptop running Linux and can query them all in a split second. Source: 7 months ago

• An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM

  + xapian which has been around a while, and while gpl licensed, is quite capable https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

  Tangentially related if you need search without the clustering and high availability story of elastic search and friends I highly recommend Xapian. Its like the SQLite of search. Single library that provides the basic set of features you would expect in a quality search experience: facets, ranked search, boolean operators, stemming etc etc. https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Need CLI tool that can handle large txt files and another tool that can conduct a lightning fast search of disk files.

  For fast searching, it usually requires indexing the files in question. There are a number of text-file indexing solutions, many of which use xapian, sphinx, or lucene/solr under the hood. Based on conditions (watching files/directories, cron jobs, new-mail triggers, etc), they'll add/remove files to the index, and you can then use a corresponding command to compose queries across that data. If it's indexed, it... Source: about 2 years ago

• Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

  There is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for "desktop" search. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Azure Cognitive Search mentions (4)

• Make your Azure OpenAI apps compliant with RBAC

  Microsoft offers an array of different AI-powered products, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Speech, and their most recent Microsoft Copilot for Office 365. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Show HN: Dera – A platform to manage chunks and embeddings for building RAG apps

  Very cool. I wonder when it makes sense to engineer things at this level vs using something like Azure AI search. [0] Love to see version control on all the things! Wonder if the version control features would be more robust if implemented in Doltgres. [0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-search/ [1] https://github.com/dolthub/doltgresql. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• 🎵 Do you want to build a Chatbot? 🎵

  Azure Cognitive Search may seem out of place in an article on conversational AI, but I do believe that chatbots are really often a form of conversational search. You're interacting with a virtual agent looking for some piece of information or looking to accomplish some task. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Managing the infrastructure of a reusable ecommerce platform with Terraform

  In the ones where we need a persistence layer, we rely on the resources Azure Cosmos DB or Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Other services provide an API to search among a catalog of products with Azure Cognitive Search. As I will explain later, we work with different environments, therefore, creating and updating the resources across them becomes a harder task. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago