Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by rb2k_ » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:52 AM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #2

You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are: Full text SQL search Apache Solr or something similar Google Search Appliance Custom search Google free search on your site Yay for search as a service.

And if you want a hassle free scalable search service with automatic sharding/scaling, a lucene underpinning and a nice REST API:

Elasticsearch

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

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Post by karmi » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:52 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.

Running ElasticSearch on AWS is pretty easy, see http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/2012/03/21/deploying-...

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

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Post by edouard1234567 » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:55 AM UTC

They claim to support realtime indexing. I wonder what they really mean by that and how it impacts performance. SOLR is a great piece of software, I start using it 5 years ago and more recently implemented a near realtime indexing(publishing) integration but I always had to make some kind trade off between high performance and near "realtime indexing"

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

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Post by damncabbage » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:55 AM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #2

You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are: Full text SQL search Apache Solr or something similar Google Search Appliance Custom search Google free search on your site Yay for search as a service.

And for the joke entry:

Yahoo! BOSS (http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/)

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

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Post by fellowshipofone » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 8:59 AM UTC

I am super excited about this announcement, but for now CloudSearch seems to be supporting only 3 types of indexes (http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/cloudsearch/latest/develop...), so no geo-search probably and other filters that might be welcome in upcoming releases

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

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Post by alexro » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 9:21 AM UTC

IndexTank had one appealing option: it allowed to change associated statistics, like number of votes, without re-indexing the document. It also allowed to dynamically use ranking functions.

Also, other solutions allow indexing in different languages, I can't find this in the CloudSearch.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 9:27 AM UTC

rb2k_ wrote: post #31

jtchang wrote: post #2

You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are: Full text SQL search Apache Solr or something similar Google Search Appliance Custom search Google free search on your site Yay for search as a service.

And if you want a hassle free scalable search service with automatic sharding/scaling, a lucene underpinning and a nice REST API: Elasticsearch

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

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Post by espeed » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 9:28 AM UTC

rb2k_ wrote: post #31

jtchang wrote: post #2

You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are: Full text SQL search Apache Solr or something similar Google Search Appliance Custom search Google free search on your site Yay for search as a service.

And if you want a hassle free scalable search service with automatic sharding/scaling, a lucene underpinning and a nice REST API: Elasticsearch

IndexTank is now open source and the code is here (http://engineering.linkedin.com/open-source/indextank-now-op...).

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

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Post by Ecio78 » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 9:29 AM UTC

edouard1234567 wrote: post #26

Ecio78 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"also" = additional to the already cited websolr ;)

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

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Post by marathe » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 9:43 AM UTC

Quick write-up here: http://webdev360.com/amazon-finally-moves-into-search-with-n...

Interesting to note that Pando Daily reported this as a rumour almost three months ago (though they got the announcement date drastically wrong: http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/17/good-news-for-ec2-customers...