Azure Cognitive Search vs Solr
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Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. | It is the only cloud search service with built-in AI capabilities that enrich all types of information to easily identify and explore relevant content at scale. Formerly known as Azure Search, it uses the same integrated Microsoft natural language stack that Bing and Office have used for more than a decade and AI services across vision, language and speech. Spend more time innovating and less time maintaining a complex cloud search solution. |
Advanced full-text search capabilities;
Optimized for high volume web traffic;
Standards-based open interfaces - XML, JSON and HTTP;
Comprehensive HTML administration interfaces;
Server statistics exposed over JMX for monitoring;
Linearly scalable, auto index replication, auto-failover and recovery;
Near real-time indexing;
Flexible and adaptable with XML configuration;
Extensible plugin architecture | Start, maintain and scale with minimal investment;Create searchable content using integrated AI;Customise to meet goals and industry requirements |
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What are some alternatives to Solr, Azure Cognitive Search?
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).
Algolia
Our mission is to make you a search expert. Push data to our API to make it searchable in real time. Build your dream front end with one of our web or mobile UI libraries. Tune relevance and get analytics right from your dashboard.
Typesense
It is an open source, typo tolerant search engine that delivers fast and relevant results out-of-the-box. has been built from scratch to offer a delightful, out-of-the-box search experience. From instant search to autosuggest, to faceted search, it has got you covered.
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages, document files, forum posts, or product information. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create a search domain, upload the data you want to make searchable to Amazon CloudSearch, and the search service automatically provisions the required technology resources and deploys a highly tuned search index.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and operate Elasticsearch at scale with zero down time.
Manticore Search
It is a full-text search engine written in C++ and a fork of Sphinx Search. It's designed to be simple to use, light and fast, while allowing advanced full-text searching. Connectivity is provided via a MySQL compatible protocol or HTTP, making it easy to integrate.
Azure Search
Azure Search makes it easy to add powerful and sophisticated search capabilities to your website or application. Quickly and easily tune search results and construct rich, fine-tuned ranking models to tie search results to business goals. Reliable throughput and storage provide fast search indexing and querying to support time-sensitive search scenarios.
Swiftype
Swiftype is the easiest way to add great search to your website or mobile application.
MeiliSearch
It is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use, and deploy search engine. The search and indexation are fully customizable and handles features like typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms.
Quickwit
It is the next-gen search & analytics engine built for logs. It is designed from the ground up to offer cost-efficiency and high reliability on large data sets. Its benefits are most apparent in multi-tenancy or multi-index settings.
