Google Search Appliance (discontinued) vs. OpenSearch

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
Score 9.4 out of 10
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The Google Search Appliance provided document indexing. The product was discontinued in favor of Google's cloud-based options.N/A
OpenSearch
Score 8.3 out of 10
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OpenSearch is an open-source software suite for search, analytics, and observability applications licensed under Apache 2.0. Powered by Apache Lucene and driven by the OpenSearch Project community, OpenSearch offers a vendor-agnostic toolset that can be used to build applications, or as an end-to-end solution, or connected with preferred open-source tools or partner projects.N/A
Pricing
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)OpenSearch
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)OpenSearch
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)OpenSearch
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Google Search Appliance (discontinued)OpenSearch
Small Businesses
Yext
Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)OpenSearch
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)OpenSearch
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
The Google Search Appliance is well suited to most site search needs and it is possible to customize the front end seen by website visitors to produce a satisfactory basic interface with basic branding applied to it. However, in some situations it may be necessary to instead make API calls from a web page to retrieve search results and the format in which those results are returned might be a little more difficult to work with.
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Open Source
OpenSearch Service presents a cost-effective pricing model, allowing users to pay solely for their usage without being burdened by minimum fees or upfront commitments. Its seamless integration with various AWS services enhances its adaptability for a wide range of data analysis requirements and also I love using it isn't it enough.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Homes in on key searches.
  • Immediate response.
  • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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Open Source
  • Gives us millisecond response times
  • Mainly open-source
  • Integration Seamlessly with AWS
  • Has a very big community so problems are fixes sooner then later
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • It's my understanding that Google is ending support for the appliance soon. This is obviously an important consideration.
  • The administrator interface is far from easy to use.
  • There is a significant learning curve for new users.
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Open Source
  • Needs more descriptive documentation
  • The UI feels a bit old
  • Some functionality still doesn't work correctly
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
Neutral rating because I've never needed support.
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Open Source
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Google search has always been superior. No other search engine application can even come close.
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Open Source
Well as I said, Elastic is behind paywall now and managing OpenSearch through AWS is so seamless that we just love it. It gets updates faster we don't have to manage separate infra and many other settings to work with elastic search and some of the tools that it provides are better then them.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • The GSA was not cheap. At all.
  • There has also been a cost associated with our need to switch to another site search solution in the near future, due to Google ending support for the sppliance.
  • That said, we have so much support content that we owed it to our customers to offer a comprehensive search tool to help them find the most relevant content - and of course Google are the masters of this. However, it's worth noting that the alogorithms used on the GSA are far older than those used on google.com.
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Open Source
  • Well we had 200 ms response times which decreased to 100ms while using OpenSearch
  • Easy to use security plugins we dont need external IAM
  • Super Easy Integration with many AWS Services such as kinsesi data stream and dynamoDB
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