Amazon Elasticsearch Service vs. Constructor.io Search

Elasticsearch is a good alternative to relational databases for setting up complex searching of data. It's inbuilt features for slicing the data [in] different ways and its ability to add weights to search results makes it easy to set up complex searching scenarios. Given that data must be pushed to this service, it may be best suited for data that is not changing very rapidly.

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Constructor.io Search takes all of the guesswork out of maintaining a search engine. As merchandisers or product teams, we have educated guesses at how search relevance should work but the customer is always king. We can't always predict the ways in which consumers will search or what their intent is. That's why the behavioral-driven approach that Constructor.io employs works so well. It means that merchandisers can focus on their sales and promotional responsibilities, instead of wasting time and bandwidth on base-level relevance questions.

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• Fast Index based search.
• Scalable.
• Best for structured and unstructured data.

• Optimizes for business KPIs, not string matches, so merchandisers can focus on strategy instead of maintaining a dictionary.
• Gives merchandisers control to curate the right customer experience per their expert understanding.
• Customer/technical support during and after implementation.

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• Understanding how stale the data is and what data needs refreshed

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• Visibility of the personalization algorithm.
• Exposing detailed analytics within the customer-facing dashboard.
• "Top searches" available via API.

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It is an extremely powerful tool if the time is put in to learn it. There are basic skeletons of out of the box behavior, it involves having really dedicated people to learn how to use it to take full advantage of its capabilities. A 10 for the tool itself, minus 3 for the difficulty in learning and maintenance

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Splunk is the most flexible of the 3 where you can manipulate the data to whatever fits your specific use case. Grafana has the most powerful capabilities but the steepest learning curve. Grafana also does offer the most flexibility as you can visualize almost any data source. Elastic is a solid middle ground between the 2

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• The cost is a bit expensive if compared with other clouds but [the] performance is very good.

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