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-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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/h6KZRG3MIzQJ. 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.
