Bonsai vs Qbox.io: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bonsai as "Fast, reliable full-text search, managed for you by experts". Your customers expect fast, near-magical results from your search. Help them find what they’re looking for with Bonsai Elasticsearch. Our fully managed Elasticsearch solution makes it easy to create, manage, and test your app's search. On the other hand, Qbox.io is detailed as "Dedicated cloud hosting for Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and SoftLayer". Qbox is supported, dedicated, hosted Elasticsearch - the bleeding edge of full-text search and analytics. We provide an intuitive interface to provision, secure, and monitor ES clusters in Amazon EC2 and Rackspace datacenters everywhere.

Bonsai and Qbox.io can be categorized as "Search as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Bonsai are:

• The Open Source Advantage- Our service is proudly powered by Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, the open source industry standard for fast full-text search.
• Results in Real-Time- Search your site's activity as it happens, with Elasticsearch's cutting-edge real-time updates
• High Availability by default

On the other hand, Qbox.io provides the following key features:

• Global availability
• 24x7 support
• Reserved cloud resources