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    Amazon CloudSearch

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon CloudSearch is enterprise search as a service, from Amazon Web Services.N/A

    Amazon Elasticsearch Service

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that enables users to search, analyze, and visualize your log data at petabyte-scale. As a fully managed service, Amazon Elasticsearch Service manages the setup, deployment, configuration, patching, and monitoring of Elasticsearch clusters, so users can spend less time managing clusters and more time building applications. With a few clicks in the AWS console, users create scalable, secure, and available Elasticsearch clusters. Amazon…N/A

    Ximilar

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    Pricing
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    Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Multiple Products
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Amazon CloudSearchAmazon Elasticsearch ServiceXimilar
    Small Businesses
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Amazon CloudSearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Amazon CloudSearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Amazon AWS
    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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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Really fast queries
    • Good Reporting
    • Reduce the cost of the server
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    Amazon AWS
    • Search
    • Query language
    • light-weight
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
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    Usability
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Amazon AWS
    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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    Ximilar
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Positive Point - Reduced the server load
    • Negative point - Not suitable for all queries
    • Negative Point - Time to implement this feature
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    Amazon AWS
    • The cost is a bit expensive if compared with other clouds but [the] performance is very good.
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