Microsoft: Azure Search

Microsoft Azure Search is a search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development. The advantages of Azure Search are as follows:

• Powerful, reliable performance
• Easily tune search indices to meet business goals
• Scale out simply
• Enable sophisticated search functionality
• Deep understanding and support of 50+ languages
• Simplify search index management

Many applications use search as the primary interaction pattern for their users. When it comes to search, user expectations are high. Users expect great relevance, suggestions, and solid linguistics that effortlessly handle spelling mistakes, near-instantaneous responses, multiple language, and more. Azure Search makes it easy to add powerful and sophisticated search capabilities to your website or application. The integrated Microsoft natural language stack has been improved over 16 years of development. Quickly and easily tune search results and construct rich, fine-tuned ranking models to tie search results to business goals. Reliable throughput and storage provide fast search indexing and querying to support time-sensitive search scenarios.

Azure Search removes the complexity of setting up and managing your own search index. The fully-managed service helps you avoid the hassle of dealing with index corruption, service availability, scaling, and service updates. Create multiple indexes with no incremental cost per index. Easily scale up or down as the traffic and data volume of your application changes.

Azure Search boosts development speed thanks to support for familiar tools and a consistent global cloud platform. Quickly provision search and start populating the index to get up and running quickly. Like other Azure services, Search uses familiar REST API calls and offers a .NET SDK. The worldwide network of Azure datacenters means reduced search latency no matter where your application is located.