Hi Sergio, CloudSearch is a Search-as-a-Service that uses SOLR underneath, though they have a proprietary API to interact with it. Both on the document side and query side. It won't give us ability to 'manage' Solr instances or cluster. If you have a use cases where you want to keep on pumping data and forget about it, good for that as it offers auto-scaling. Does not offer ability or visibility into what's going on underneath it plus no control over solrconfig, custom plugins, etc. No spellcheck, etc.
If you are looking for a service that provides you direct access to Solr's APIs without having to rewrite your application, then CloudSearch is probably not what you are looking for. Take a look at Measured Search (www.measuredsearch.com) - It offers Solr-as-a-Service on top of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud that allows you direct access to Solr and ability to manage your instances. The platform is comprised of currently three products: 1. SearchStax Cloud Manager - Allows you to deploy, manage and scale Solr. - Provides High Availability as instances are front-ended with ELB (load balancers). - One time and scheduled backups. - Cloning of deployments; - Ability to add / remove nodes, real time log access and log archival. - All deployments run on https, supports auth - Enterprise version allows you to deploy & manage Solr within your AWS account as well. - Zookeeper deployment & setup. - access to deploy custom JARs, etc. - Supports Solr 4.8 and above (self serve version supports Solr 5.2.1 and 5.3.1) 2. SearchStax Pulse - Monitoring and Alerting for your Solr Clusters. - System Level monitoring - GC monitoring - Search & Indexing monitoring - Cache statistics - Alerting on any of the above metrics at host and collection level. - PagerDuty integration 3. SearchStax Analytics - User behavior Analytics that allows you to track application level interactions and metrics to help you optimize your search. - Total searches, - No result searches - Click through rates - conversion metrics for e-commerce scenarios - query level details - advanced version includes MRR reports, average click positions, etc. Lastly, provides 24x7x365 Support and auto-scaling for customers that elect for it. Thanks, Sameer. On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, marotosg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am evaluating the possibility of using Amazon CloudSearch to manage Solr > insances. Reason is the price and time to manage and deploy. I am not fully > sure yet how flexible is that service. in case you need to install a > specific solr version or plug in. > Do you have any experience with it? > > Would you please share any thoughts? > > Thanks > Sergio > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Amazon-CloudSearch-tp4272875.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- *Sameer Maggon* Measured Search c: 310.344.7266 www.measuredsearch.com <http://measuredsearch.com>
