Search
Guide
Elasticsearch is great for full-text log analysis, but less-so for site search and e-commerce search. Fortunately, there are great alternatives available today.
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Built on top of Lucene, Apache Solr is a powerful legacy enterprise search engine. Solr has a huge community and is used in many applications, but there are newer alternatives available.
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Lucene is the godfather of API site search, but it has been eclipsed by Elasticsearch and Solr. New cloud native search solutions may be a better choice for your next project.
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Google is a powerful internet search engine, but it's on-site search products are ad-driven, have limited functionality, and little support. Here's what to look for when picking a new solution for your site.
See GSS AlternativesGuide
Algolia is a popular hosted search engine known for its speed and ease of use. But it has its critics, too, particularly around the complexity of managing rules and its high indexing costs.
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Elasticsearch announced they will end-of-life Swiftype in 2023 and are aggressively pushing to migrate customers to their own SaaS platform. But is it the best solution?
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