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Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by superfork » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:16 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #19

mryan wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says it is based on the same search that powers Amazon.com, so presumably it is A9: http://a9.com/

Just like they said AWS is the infrastructure that powers Amazon when AWS started out. I'd read this with a pinch of salt.

This is false. Amazon only recently started using+moving some of its services/fleets to AWS. To this day, a vast majority run on dedicated fleets.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:17 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #19

mryan wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says it is based on the same search that powers Amazon.com, so presumably it is A9: http://a9.com/

Just like they said AWS is the infrastructure that powers Amazon when AWS started out. I'd read this with a pinch of salt.

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Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by aphexairlines » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:24 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #19

mryan wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says it is based on the same search that powers Amazon.com, so presumably it is A9: http://a9.com/

Just like they said AWS is the infrastructure that powers Amazon when AWS started out. I'd read this with a pinch of salt.

Amazon never claimed this.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by alexro » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:29 AM UTC

joshu wrote: post #5

anyone know what it is underneath the covers? elasticsearch?

From the article: Amazon CloudSearch has a number of advanced search capabilities including faceting and fielded search

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by Maxious » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:30 AM UTC

intended wrote: post #3

looks like some people would want help in converting document X into a - "JSON or XML that conforms to our Search Document Format (SDF)" This is still going to be a painfull task for legacy data - it has to be massaged into shape. Should be interesting to see how this gets applied though.

http://tika.apache.org/ "detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries". I use it all the time for input to solr.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by edouard1234567 » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:37 AM UTC

Ecio78 wrote: post #18

nl wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CloudSearch is just not economically feasible for a SaaS / free multiuser offering Are you saying it is too much? WebSolr etc have options that are cheaper.

Looking for hosted Solr solutions I found also: http://www.opensolr.com/ http://www.solrhq.com/ http://www.midwesternmac.com/services/hosted-solr-search http://www.netaphorsearch.com/products/solr-hosting http://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-network/cloud... (they're mainly targeted to drupal) anything else?

http://websolr.com/plans

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by huoju » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:37 AM UTC

cbg0 wrote: post #6

It would be interesting to see how this performs, compared to running Lucene, Solr, Sphinx, or what-have-you on an EC2 instance with equal resources.

Lucene and Solr eat too many memory, they are not fit to vps users. Cloudsearch is more cheaper than setup a delicate server for search.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by edouard1234567 » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:43 AM UTC

zargath wrote: post #17

interesting, I will check out for sure. Any plans for EU release? I am very interested in the facet-search functionality, anybody know if there is sort options on the returned facet's ? Most search engines just sort facets by number of hits.

You can sort facets in your application, not sure why you'd want the search engine to sort them, doesn't seem like a feature that belongs to the "back-end" search engine.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by Ecio78 » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:43 AM UTC

huoju wrote: post #27

cbg0 wrote: post #6

It would be interesting to see how this performs, compared to running Lucene, Solr, Sphinx, or what-have-you on an EC2 instance with equal resources.

Lucene and Solr eat too many memory, they are not fit to vps users. Cloudsearch is more cheaper than setup a delicate server for search.

it seems that the latest Solr 3.5.0. release use less memory: Bug fixes and improvements from Apache Lucene 3.5.0, including a very substantial (3-5X) RAM reduction required to hold the terms index on opening an IndexReader http://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by alexro » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:48 AM UTC

alexro wrote: post #24

joshu wrote: post #5

anyone know what it is underneath the covers? elasticsearch?

From the article: Amazon CloudSearch has a number of advanced search capabilities including faceting and fielded search

This has actually went into a wrong place; should be an answer to the question about facets.