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Azure Search vs Google Maps: What are the differences?

What is Azure Search? Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development. 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.

What is Google Maps? Build highly customisable maps with your own content and imagery. Create rich applications and stunning visualisations of your data, leveraging the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usability of Google Maps and a modern web platform that scales as you grow.

Azure Search belongs to "Search as a Service" category of the tech stack, while Google Maps can be primarily classified under "Mapping APIs".

Some of the features offered by Azure Search are:

Powerful, reliable performance
Easily tune search indices to meet business goals
Scale out simply

On the other hand, Google Maps provides the following key features:

Maps Image APIs
Places API
Web Services

"Easy to set up" is the primary reason why developers consider Azure Search over the competitors, whereas "Free" was stated as the key factor in picking Google Maps.

Advice on Azure Search and Google Maps

StackShare Editors

Apr 4, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 110.3K views

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Mapbox

Google Maps

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OpenStreetMap

From a StackShare Community member: "We're a team of two starting to write a mobile app. The app will heavily rely on maps and this is where my partner and I are not seeing eye-to-eye. I would like to go with an open source solution like OpenStreetMap that is used by Apple & Foursquare. He would like to go with Google Maps since more apps use it and has better support (according to him). Mapbox is also an option but I don’t know much about it."

Replies (6)

Amir Aharon

Apr 6, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 125.2K views

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Mapbox

I use Mapbox because We need 3D maps and navigation, it has a great plugin for React and React Native which we use. Also the Mapbox Geocoder is great.

Blair Gemmer

Software Engineer at VYNYL · Apr 8, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 123K views

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Google Maps

Google Maps is best because it is practically free (they give you $300 in free credits per month and it's really hard to go over the free tier unless you really mean business) and it's the best!

Ryoji Hayasaka

Apr 5, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 302.5K views

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OpenStreetMap

I use OpenStreetMap because that has a strong community. It takes some time to catch up with Google Maps, but OpenStreetMap will become great solution.

Shuuji TAKAHASHI

at shuuji3.xyz · Apr 7, 2019 | 1 upvotes · 108.9K views

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Google Maps

I use Google Maps because it has a lot of great features such as Google's rich APIs, geolocation functions, navigation search feature, street map view, auto-generated 3D city map.

Anand Tech Inc

Jan 17, 2020 | 1 upvotes · 109K views

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OpenStreetMap

Its open source and we use it.

Anand Tech Inc

Fabio Fraga Machado

at Zygo · Apr 5, 2019 | 1 upvotes · 116.6K views

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OpenStreetMap

I use OpenStreetMap because i have the control of the environment, using Docker containers or bare-metal servers.

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Pros of Azure Search

Pros of Google Maps

4
Easy to set up
3
Auto-Scaling
3
Managed
2
Easy Setup
2
More languages
2
Lucene based search criteria

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Free
136
Address input through maps api
81
Sharable Directions
47
Google Earth
45
Unique
3
Custom maps designing

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Cons of Azure Search

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Google Attributions and logo
1
Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete

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What are some alternatives to Azure Search and Google Maps?

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).

Solr

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.

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.

Apache Solr

It uses the tools you use to make application building a snap. It is built on the battle-tested Apache Zookeeper, it makes it easy to scale up and down.

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.

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