AWS releases cloud search

[Ugorji Nwoke]

Just got this email from Amazon (I signed up for AWS).

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications.
Amazon CloudSearch adds search capabilities for your website or application without the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search platform. Amazon CloudSearch seamlessly scales as the amount of searchable data increases or as the query rate changes, and developers can change search parameters, fine tune search relevance and apply new settings at any time without having to upload the data again.
Built for high throughput and low latency, Amazon CloudSearch supports a rich set of features including free text search, faceted search, customizable relevance ranking, configurable search fields, text processing options, and near real-time indexing. Amazon CloudSearch offers low, pay-as-you-go pricing with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments.
With Amazon CloudSearch, you get:
Rich Search Features
Automatic Scaling for Data & Traffic
Low Latency, High Throughput
Easy Administration
Low Costs

 

 http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/04/amazon-cloudsearch-start-searching-in-one-hour.html/

I think it's unfortunate that AWS (which started from IAAS and is now branching into PAAS) has released rich search functionality before GAE (which has always been PAAS only). AWS Dynamodb as of now does not compete favourably against the datastore, but ... it's software. And the value proposition (feature-set wise) of AWS PAAS is getting better quickly, while still affording full IAAS functionality with regular price reductions to go with it. And the AWS team has always been a big team, and constantly hiring (we always used to hear GAE team talk of its small size).

I know I'm ranting. Folks here know I've invested a lot into GAE and only want its success, if nothing else so my investment didn't go in the drain. Take this for what it is.

[Adam Sah]

actually, after a year+ watching things develop, I'm glad we chose to roll our own from Apache/SOLR/Lucene and *not* go with a cloud service:

 - finer-grained controls over which fields are included and how they're weighted

 - very fine-grained controls over ranking

 - use of the search engine as (another) data source for datamart/warehouse queries, e.g. stats about our database.

 - extremely fast

 - very very cheap-- $20/mon including redundancy.

 - near-zero maintenance (in practice)

adam

[Andrei]

There is one more based on lucene
http://www.elasticsearch.org

> >http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/04/amazon-cloudsearch-start-searching...

[Andrei]

I wrote Mongodb rest server in java with lucene search built in
Give it a try
https://sites.google.com/site/mongodbjavarestserver/
For example I did insert timing and on 2 cents/hour hpcloud server it
does 1000 inserts per second


On Apr 12, 3:24 pm, Andrei <gml...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is one more based on lucenehttp://www.elasticsearch.org