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Can anyone describe the business benefits of an algolia implementation (vs Elasticsearch?) for a company that doesn't heavily rely on content searches? It seems
by alexbrower 6y ago
Can anyone describe the business benefits of an algolia implementation (vs Elasticsearch?) for a company that doesn't heavily rely on content searches? It seems expensive and something that I'd build on my own.
(Disclaimer: long-time operator and fledgling programmer)
- vegannet 6y agoSearch is hard to get right and the cost of Algolia is negligible vs. doing it yourself. As a programmer, every line of code you write is a line of code you own: the less code you own in production, the better off you are. Algolia has saved us hundreds of hours which translates to tens of thousands of dollars.
- aseure 6y agoDisclaimer: I'm a developer at Algolia. IMHO the two main advantages in favor of Algolia, are the sane defaults for relevancy and speed and the fact that the service is hosted and can grow with your business without having dedicated engineers to manage both the configuration and the infrastructure. Also, on top of the Algolia services per se (search, analytics, recommendation, etc.), we're providing a lot of backend and frontend libraries which one would otherwise need to reimplement when using an elastic- or Solr-based implementations.