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It's pretty much a "backend as a service" for autocomplete
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@erictwillis Great find Eric!
New term to "_aaS" family I guess "AaaS" :)
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Don't know much about algolia. But AaaS provides a simpler API and indexes fixed attributes in data. Algolia provides more feature like Analytics and might be better fit for enterprises. Also big difference in pricing structure. AaaS is easy to integrate into apps, costs less.
@findsubhash we have 200k records in Algolia, so it looks like cheaper for us. We are small startup, but it's more affordable for us to use Algolia for web and mobile
Also confused about how this differs from the myriad hosted Elasticsearch providers. The API looks similar and the product seems less flexible (targeted towards people who need autocomplete, but not necessarily other search features).
All that said this is still a nice find. Rolling your own autocomplete with ES does take a little time to get started with, and the pricing here is competitive.
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