Amazon CloudSearch vs Datafari
Amazon CloudSearch
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Datafari
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| Figure | Amazon CloudSearch | Datafari |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $825/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Search Databases | 7.5 (#22) | 8.5 (#7) |
| Search features | It supports free text, Boolean, and faceted search, autocomplete suggestions, customizable relevance ranking, field weighting, geospatial search, and highlighting. | Search includes multilingual support, spellchecking, content suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and smart autocomplete. |
| Security | CloudSearch supports HTTPS and integrates with IAM to control access to configuration, document, search, and suggest services. | Datafari supports AD or LDAP authentication, authorization through source-system ACLs, and HTTPS encryption for exchanges between components and users. |
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In their own words
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Datafari
Datafari is an open-source enterprise search solution made by France Labs for finding company data across sources and formats. Its crawlers collect content and metadata, with configurable processing filters and crawl-load management. Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks, and email. A plugin mechanism allows connectors for additional sources.
Search features include multilingual support, spellchecking, suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and autocomplete. Relevance can use document content and metadata, query-specific boosts, entity recognition, and user context such as history, clicks, and department. Datafari supports hybrid and vector search, faceted search, and a REST query interface. Neural Datafari adds vector search and retrieval-augmented answers grounded in documents the user is authorized to access. The free Community plan is aimed at developers and DIY users; its support is DIY. The Initial plan costs $9,900 a year and includes customer support.