Amazon Kendra vs. Apache Lucene

Amazon Kendra has been great for our internal knowledge base and website search engine. It's an extremely easy-to-use platform that can be easily integrated into bespoke platforms. We understand that it uses state-of-the-art technology, but pricing can certainly be improved in the long term. It does not bother us much now, because it delivers what it promises.

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Apache Lucene offers great full-text search library that makes it easy to add search functionality to a website or other applications. Lucene is ideal if you want low-level access to the indexes and its APIs. For general purposes, Apache Solr, the web application built atop of Lucene can be used instead. Apache Solr comes with caching, HTTP/ JSON APIs and a simple web administration console.

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• Extremely accurate.
• Easy to use and setup.
• Great search engine.
• Powerful research tool.

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• Fast indexing, with proper optimization I can index a Gig of data in 2 mins.
• Easy integration with web crawlers
• Quick and Accurate Results
• Flexible sorting option for results based on the search field and relevance

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• Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service that facilitates the way we obtain information by making it easier to obtain accurate documents without wasting time, it is a software that is designed to work in an optimized way, providing a business quality service with flexible features and innumerable benefits. , it is effective and fresh.

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• We had difficulty porting the project to a cluster based environment on the cloud.
• For our particular use case of retrieving documents based on text pattern matching, the program worked efficiently however, we did not find many resources for image pattern recognition based on their metadata.

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Amazon Kendra offers an intelligent search experience, it is a tool that facilitates the way we work by providing secure and immediate results, saves time, increases productivity and brings progress. It is the best way to get accurate answers using natural language. It is a software that works in an extraordinary way, being easy to implement, safe and effective, the experience is unique.

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The search and index performance of [Apache] Lucene is excellent and the quality of results is good, if not better. For implementing it with small scale applications it is a no brainer, Lucene is the best and most cost effective solution. Learning curve is not too steep either.

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• Amazon Kendra helps streamline work by quickly and accurately finding the information you need through natural language query handling, creating scalable support, improving work life and customer experience with clear and secure results.

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• Very good at using minimal hardware sets saving money on hosting.
• Very good at housing multiple cores or instances.

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