Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Elasticsearch Service vs. IBM Watson Discovery

Amazon Cloudsearch can be suitable for some queries that require fast data. For example, in our case, we used CloudSearch, in a tool called Global Search. That will search everything like names, emails and a lot of stuff in our application. If you want fast data and you have a simple query, Global Search isn't appropriate for you.

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Elasticsearch is a good alternative to relational databases for setting up complex searching of data. It's inbuilt features for slicing the data [in] different ways and its ability to add weights to search results makes it easy to set up complex searching scenarios. Given that data must be pushed to this service, it may be best suited for data that is not changing very rapidly.

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Overall, IBM Watson Discovery is an amazing technology that we use with our clients to address various business problems, but the biggest challenge has always been about ingesting, analyzing, enriching, and searching huge collections of documents and allowing our end users and SMEs to be able to search for what they need to reduce the time and efforts spent daily on a manual search through various collections of documents. We have successfully managed to reduce manual work by over 80%, and now our SMEs are being used for the skills they have to gather insights rather than do manual work.

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• Really fast queries
• Good Reporting
• Reduce the cost of the server

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• Search
• Query language
• light-weight

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• It is an excellently fast platform with documents and the answers to queries.
• With automation learning beneficial as it saves time.
• When searching for a document, everything stays located and easy to find.
• Acceptance of various documents.
• It has a quite comfortable Technical support, always available when required.

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• Can take some time to implement
• The initial configuration can be tricky
• Takes some time to update the values

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• It is not so simple to learn.
• Documentation is often very confusing.

• I believe AI should be more flexible about providing data. However, it's understandable that you need to provide the details you need in a more specific and detailed way.
• The interface could use more tweaking. Being new to the program, it was kind of hard to navigate.
• Luckily, there was a customized feature of the dashboard that I could set up, and having something that you know where you are placed always feels familiar and comfortable.

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It is an extremely powerful tool if the time is put in to learn it. There are basic skeletons of out of the box behavior, it involves having really dedicated people to learn how to use it to take full advantage of its capabilities. A 10 for the tool itself, minus 3 for the difficulty in learning and maintenance

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IBM Watson Discovery has the best user capabilities and easily transform business decision-making portfolio. The automation system saves time used in data analysis as opposed to manual research that consumes a lot of time. The visualization across the dashboard enables my team to interpret complex data and use it to make reliable marketing decisions.

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Similar to all IBM Watson and Salesforce product solutions, the overall support would be a 10/10. Their provided FAQ's help with frequently experienced issues and if still unable to figure something out, their customer service representatives are always super responsive. With instant chat functions available, it is easy to ask a quick question rather than sitting on hold.

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I didn't investigate the best alternatives to CloudSearch, but did help with implementing this feature in our application. But from what i tested and used - Cloudsearch is very fast to get queries. Some negative points can be the time to implement this and some configurations that can be tricky.

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Splunk is the most flexible of the 3 where you can manipulate the data to whatever fits your specific use case. Grafana has the most powerful capabilities but the steepest learning curve. Grafana also does offer the most flexibility as you can visualize almost any data source. Elastic is a solid middle ground between the 2

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Discovery differs from its competitors due to the better ease of implementation and the high level of natural language recognition, it is equal in integration resources such as API and workflow or process pipeline, but it loses in the price for a high volume of documents and/or research. If you own or plan to use other services from the IBM Watson family, there is no doubt that Watson discovery is your best option. Another important point is if you plan to use a cloud or on-premise service (local server or private cloud).

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• Positive Point - Reduced the server load
• Negative point - Not suitable for all queries
• Negative Point - Time to implement this feature

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• The cost is a bit expensive if compared with other clouds but [the] performance is very good.

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• We find its Enterprise plan expensive for a country of LATAM. For US or Europe based businesses, looks great.
• A Big Data and massive queries based company would find the service expensive. Maybe a flat price plan would be helpful.
• Have you thought in making a cheaper plan where you take the learning from your customer's data to enrich your AI tool?

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