There is one more based on lucene http://www.elasticsearch.org
On Apr 12, 2:55 pm, Adam Sah <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > On Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:08:00 AM UTC-7, Ugorji wrote: > > > 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... > > > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
