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Speed of data is everything in web and Algolia provide results back in milliseconds! Despite having nearly 2 million records, Algolia allows users to search results quickly and return the most relevant results accurately. Using DSN's (A Search CDN), we are able to provide these speeds globally. My developers were able to develop a solution that intergrated into our current framework within two weeks thanks to the great documentation and JS library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
So far I have yet to find a downside of Algolia! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It has a lot a great reporting features, but the roll up of data can be double counted for each index making the totals inflated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is complicated and time-consuming to set up. While it seems to have a lot of capabilities, they are not out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Setting up and integrating algolia is a breeze compared to elasticsearch. The documentation is really well written and overall the developer experience is good. As for search, it does exactly what it advertises which is fast search. They now have AI which i have yet to use but I am glad that they are keeping up with new tech. I have only dealt with customer support once and they were pretty responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The biggest downside to algolia is the cost. I've seen companies become so dependent on algolia and as traffic grows it becomes very expensive. At my prior job we had to offload less used search back to our database to offset this. Another downside is reindexing can be slow at times but that is a bottleneck that everyone is going to face when scaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Algolia has a powerful indexing system, with a distributed network of databases across the planet. We make use of their Distributed Search Network (DSN) feature to reduce latency for international visitors. Response times have been reliably rapid since we started working with their platform 6+years ago. Their UI is easy to use and our team had no trouble working with their API to implement a custom designed solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Complex ranking, sorting, and subsorting can be a bit difficult to achieve what we're hoping to. We can easily change the sorting rules, but it is difficult to mix different weighted priorities (e.g. trying to achieve a list of results where the result title is most important, but location takes priority, but not to the extent that bad results are returned just because they're close-by, etc). It sounds like their NeuralSearch would do an awesome job, but it has always been outside of our price range. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
## Reliability and Speed
Algolia's search service has proven to be an essential component in our composable web architecture, effectively handling full website search use cases. The service has consistently demonstrated remarkable reliability, seamlessly integrating into our infrastructure. Its flawless performance as an external SaaS service has been commendable, delivering exceptional speed and accuracy in search results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I spent few mins to think if there are any dislikes that I could write to improve but I am unable to find any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The upsides of Algolia are fast search, scalability and ease of integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The downsides of Algolia are complexity and learning curve associated with it, reliability concerns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Super easy to navigate especially for front end users. UI is very intuitive, and endless, indepth supporting documention available. Support desk are very responsive. Love the analytics and testing environments, makes it easy for us to simulate and test changes for fast implementaiton. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I would love to see more metrics available on A/B tests.
With a lot of indexs it often makes it hard to find my most important ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Algolia representatives are responsive and helpful with questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some of the technical aspects of utilizing Algolia tools make it difficult to learn/implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A fairly simple and lightweight integration with powerful AI features that we found easy to build into our customer e-commerce site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Configurations - there's a lot of features and have to learn how to get the best use out of all of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
