Azure Search vs MeiliSearch: 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 MeiliSearch? *Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API *. 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.

Azure Search and MeiliSearch belong to "Search as a Service" category of the tech stack.

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, MeiliSearch provides the following key features:

• Search as-you-type experience (answers < 50ms)
• Full-text search
• Typo tolerant (understands typos and spelling mistakes)

MeiliSearch is an open source tool with 1.29K GitHub stars and 42 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MeiliSearch's open source repository on GitHub.