Real-time Search as a Service

Re:Real-time Search as a Service by nestlequ1k on Monday February 17, 2014 @12:50AM (#7250801)

No offense, but I hate your business model. Convincing devs to put their search db in the hands of a small hosted startup is a recipe for disaster (see indextank).

There must be a better way. ElasticSearch and MongoDB use open source business models that I think tend to work much better for smart devs picking technologies (irrespective of their actual products).

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Re:Real-time Search as a Service by kwi on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:38AM (#7258274)

Hmm, from my own experience - yes, there is alternative open search engines, and there are a lot actually. But did you ever try one on your own? Most of them are a nightmare to setup and are atrociously slow as soon as you get a few thousands entries... Sometimes, it's definitely worth it to externalize some expertise. Search is definitely not easy to masterize.

(And I was a user of indextank when they shutdown)

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Re:Real-time Search as a Service by nestlequ1k on Friday February 21, 2014 @02:38AM (#7275837)

Agreed, I think there's a good middle ground. Lots of hosted APIs use open technologies, and I'm paying for the convenience of someone handling everything for me, without being locked into a single provider who will likely get acquihired and shut down at some point.

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Re:Real-time Search as a Service by hboon on Monday February 17, 2014 @07:00AM (#7251646)

What was wrong with indextank?

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Re:Real-time Search as a Service by kwi on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:39AM (#7258277)

They got acquired by LinkedIn and they shutdown the service.

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