Azure Search
Pricing Model
Pricing Model
Free
Monthly payment
One-time payment
Annual Subscription
Quote-based
List of Features
List of Features
- Schema when you want, schemaless when you don’t
- Dynamic Fields
- Field Types
- Copy Field Capabilities
- Advanced Configurable Text Analysis
- Powerful Relevance Tuning Capabilities
- Multiple Approaches to Query Parsing
- Near Real-Time Indexing
- Pivot Faceting
- Range Faceting
- Multi-Select Facet Parameters
- Content Discovery
- Dynamic Search Results Clustering
- Typeahead,
- Autocomplete,
- Auto-suggest
- Spelling Suggestions
- Hint Highlighting
- Location-Aware Search
- Spatial Integration
- Rich Content
- Manage a Variety of Data Types
- Apache Tika Integration
- Flexible and Extensible Input and Output Formats
- Single-Node and Distributed Capabilities
- Smart Caching
- Performance Tuning
- Scaling
- Advanced Transaction log, Replication and Failover
- Shard Splitting
- Admin Interface
- Open Source and Open Development
- Plugins and Extensions
Pricing Info
Pricing Info
Apache Lucene is delivered based on the Apache License, a free and liberal software license that allows you to use, modify, and share any Apache software product for personal, commercial, or open source development purposes for free. Thus, you can use Apache Lucene with no enterprise pricing plan to worry about.
Integrations
Integrations
Apache Solr supports integration with many content management systems and other business applications and tools such as Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, and Cassandra, and Java Topological Suite library. It also integrates with the following projects and solutions from Apache:
- Apache Lucene
- Apache Tika
- Apache UIMA
- Apache Zookeeper
- Apache Velocity
Languages Supported
English
Chinese
German
Hindi
Japanese
Spanish
French
Russian
Italian
Dutch
Portugese
Polish
Turkish
Swedish
Arabic
Prominent Clients
Sears, eHarmony, Zappos.com
Available Devices
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone/iPad
Mac
Web-based
Windows Mobile
Company Size
Small Business
Large Enterprises
Medium Business
Freelancers
Available Support
phone
live support
training
tickets
General Info
A scalable, reliable, and open source search platform that leverages that capabilities of Apache Lucene and other projects and tools from Apache to boost the search performance of highly-trafficked websites and applications across the world.
Company Email
apache@apache.org
Contact No.
Company's Address
The Apache Software Foundation
401 Edgewater Place, Suite 600
Wakefield, MA 01880
U.S.A.
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Pricing Model
Free
Monthly payment
One-time payment
Annual Subscription
Quote-based
List of Features
- Build a Great Enterprise Search Solution
- Incorporate AI to the Indexing Process
- Cognitive Skills
- Extract Unstructured Content From Source Documents
- Convert Unstructured Content to Searchable Content
- Generate Enriched Documents
- Fully-Managed Search Service
- Quickly Provision Search
- Set Up and Manage Search Index through API Calls and Microsoft .NET SDK
- Full-Text Search
- Simple Query Syntax
- Lucene Query Syntax
- Data Integration
- Linguistic Analysis
- Geo-Search
- User Experience Features
- Relevance
- Monitoring and Reporting
- Tools for Prototyping and Inspection
Pricing Info
Alongside its free plan, Azure Search offers several SMB and enterprise pricing for all users to choose from. The plans are using pricing method wherein you only need to pay for the number of search units you used or provisioned for a given hour. Search units are the Azure Search resources used for your service. In addition, the pricing of the plans varies depending on the number of replicas and partitions you can use for scaling, the storage capacity you need for the partitions, the number of indices you can set up per service, and the region you belong.
The search units which you can use can also be combined to process more search queries per second, increase the number documents you can upload and manage, speed up data ingestion, and improve search performance. Moreover, you will be charged with a corresponding bandwidth cost when you transmit data in and out of Azure data centers. Please visit the official website of Microsoft Azure to check the rates for data transfer and bandwidth usage. Meanwhile, here are the details on Azure Search’s pricing plans:
Free
- Free
- Storage – 50 MB
- Max indexes per service – 3
- Documents Hosted – 10,000 documents
- West Central US, East Asia, Japan West
- Data Transfer – Standard rates apply
Basic
- Price Per Search Unit -$73.73/mo. or $0.101/hr.
- East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, West Central US, West US, West US 2, North Europe, West Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia
- Price Per Search Unit – $97.09/month or $0.133/hour
- Japan West, Brazil South
- Storage – 2 GB per service
- Max indexes per service – 5
- Documents Hosted – 1 million
- West Central US, East Asia, Japan West
- Scale out limits – Up to 3 units per service
- Data Transfer – Standard rates apply
Standard S1
- Price Per Search Unit – $245.28/mo. or $0.336/hr.
- East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, West Central US, West US, West US 2, North Europe, West Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia
- Price Per Search Unit – $$324.12/mo. or $0.444/hr.
- Japan West, Brazil South
- Storage – 25 GB/partition (max 300 GB documents per service)
- Max indexes per service – 50
- Documents Hosted – 15 million/partition (up to 180 million documents per service)
- West Central US, East Asia, Japan West
- Scale out limits – Up to 36 units per service (max 12 partitions; max 12 replicas)
- Data Transfer – Standard rates apply
Standard S2
- Price Per Search Unit – $981.12/mo. or $1.344/hr.
- East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, West Central US, West US, West US 2, North Europe, West Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia
- Price Per Search Unit – $1,295.02/mo. or $1.774/hr.
- Japan West, Brazil South
- Storage – 100 GB/partition (max 1.2 TB documents per service)
- Max indexes per service – 200
- Documents Hosted – 60 million/partition (up to 720 million documents per service)
- West Central US, East Asia, Japan West
- Scale out limits – Up to 36 units per service (max 12 partitions; max 12 replicas)
- Data Transfer – Standard rates apply
Standard S3
- Price Per Search Unit – $1,962.24/mo. or $2.688/hr.
- East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, West Central US, West US, West US 2, North Europe, West Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia
- Price Per Search Unit – $2,592.96/mo. or $3.552/hr.
- Japan West, Brazil South
- Storage – 200 GB/partition (max 2.4 TB documents per service)
- Max indexes per service – 200 or 1000/partition in high density mode*
- Documents Hosted – 120 million/partition (up to 1.4 billion documents per service) or 1m/index in high density mode*
- West Central US, East Asia, Japan West
- Scale out limits – Up to 36 units per service (max 12 partitions; max 12 replicas) up to 12 replicas in high density mode*
- Data Transfer – Standard rates apply
*High density (HD) mode is an option available within the standard S3 service that allows a larger number of indexes to be created in a single service. Using HD mode, a service can create up to 1,000 indexes/partition, where an index may be no more than 1 million documents (or 2 GB storage), and the total number of documents and storage across all indexes may not exceed 120 million documents/partition or 200 GB/partition.
Integrations
Azure Search integrates with the following data sources from Microsoft Azure:
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Blob Storage
Languages Supported
English
Chinese
German
Hindi
Japanese
Spanish
French
Russian
Italian
Dutch
Portugese
Polish
Turkish
Swedish
Arabic
Prominent Clients
Audioburst, Navitime, NBC Sports
Available Devices
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone/iPad
Mac
Web-based
Windows Mobile
Company Size
Small Business
Large Enterprises
Medium Business
Freelancers
Available Support
phone
live support
training
tickets
General Info
A high-performing, world-class, and AI-powered search-as-a-service cloud solution developed to assist developers and business professionals in incorporating powerful and advanced search capabilities into their web and mobile applications. optimizing the indexing process through artificial intelligence, and building a build fully-managed search solutions which can enhance customer engagement and business performance.
Company Email
Contact No.
Company's Address
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
USA
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If you are still having doubts about which product will be best in your case it may be a sensible idea to investigate each service’s social metrics. These metrics are quite often a way to see how popular each service is and how big is its online presence. For instance Apache Solr Twitter account has currently 48501 followers. At the same time Azure Search Twitter is followed by 620621 people.
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