Azure AI Search vs. Azure Stream Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Cognitive Search
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is enterprise search as a service, from Microsoft.
$0.10
Per Hour
Azure Stream Analytics
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers Azure Stream Analytics for IoT and connected devices, supporting real-time analytics and reporting.
$0.11
per hour with a 1 SU minimum
Pricing
Azure AI SearchAzure Stream Analytics
Editions & Modules
Basic
$0.101
Per Hour
Standard S1
$0.336
Per Hour
Standard S2
$1.344
Per Hour
Standard S3
$2.688
Per Hour
Standard
$0.11
per hour with a 1 SU minimum
Dedicated
$0.11
per hour with a 36 SU minimum
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Cognitive SearchAzure Stream Analytics
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAzure Stream Analytics is priced by the number of Streaming Units provisioned. A Streaming Unit represents the amount of memory and compute allocated to your resources.
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Top Pros
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Features
Azure AI SearchAzure Stream Analytics
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Search
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Ratings
Azure Stream Analytics
6.1
1 Ratings
28% below category average
Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Low Latency00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Data Enrichment00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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Azure AI SearchAzure Stream Analytics
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Guru
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure AI SearchAzure Stream Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(3 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure AI SearchAzure Stream Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Incredibly robust software for an enterprise organization to plug into their application. If you have a full development resource team at your disposal, this is great software and I highly recommend it. Largely, however, you won't be able to use this prior to the enterprise level. It's just too complicated and cumbersome of a product.
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Microsoft
Data enrichment is effectively done in stream analytics also checking the values with different functionality like windowing and group by clause is effectively working.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure Search provides a fully-managed service for loading, indexing, and querying content.
  • Azure Search has an easy C# SDK that allows you to implement loading and retrieving data from the service very easy. Any developer with some Microsoft experience should feel immediate familiarity.
  • Azure Search has a robust set of abilities around slicing and presenting the data during a search, such as narrowing by geospatial data and providing an auto-complete capabilities via "Suggesters".
  • Azure Search has one-of-a-kind "Cognitive Search" capabilities that enable running AI algorithms over data to enrich it before it is stored into the service. For example, one could automatically do a sentiment analysis when ingesting the data and store that as one of the searchable fields on the content.
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Microsoft
  • Routing of data from multiple inputs to multiple output
  • You create your own user define function.
  • Intermediate query is working very effectively.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Cross platform compatibility to integrate with various OS
  • Optimizing latency.
  • Nothing better than work on price, create more flexible options.
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Microsoft
  • Code competency is not that much effective
  • Ml models can't be integrated with stream analytics
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Search is a competitor against Google's own AI autosuggest a feature. We went with Azure because our network security folks found it to be more robust from a security standpoint, which is incredibly important when you have proprietary manufacturing information. Additionally, we're a Microsoft shop so it plugged into our cloud hosting package and client facing OS.
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Microsoft
Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Azure Search enabled us to stand up a robust search capability with very few developer hours.
  • The fully-managed service of Azure Search means we get low cost of management (EG, DevOps) going into the future, even though the cost of the service itself definitely reflects the time saved.
  • Azure Search counts as a "Cognitive Service" for Microsoft Azure consumption and aligns our products with Microsoft's interests of driving an AI-first approach in the enterprise. Microsoft Partners, service and product companies alike, should be looking to align with this AI vision as it means favorable treatment from the Microsoft sales teams.
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Microsoft
  • Very nice roi while using it.
  • Multiple integration is the best functionality
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