Algolia

The best search system for firestore

Opmerkingen: Thanks to Algolia, I integrated a search system in my project made with Angular / Fire. Now I am thinking of integrating its geo-search. Hopefully, it will be as good as your search with firestore.

Pluspunten:

The best of all is the ease of integration with your project, both to the back and front, and how easy it is to build the queries.

Minpunten:

That it does not have a pay per use as firebase does, you only have 2 options, the free account or the payment commitment, use or do not use all your operations for which you are going to pay

Very easy to get started

Pluspunten:

The documentation is very well organized and so it was easy for us as a startup to add search functionality to our product. There is an official python client package, including packages for other languages.

Minpunten:

It's a bit expensive so we'll have to evaluate at the time we want to scale.

Extending the capability of other platforms

Opmerkingen: Extremely positive. Fast to implement and very few issues.

Pluspunten:

We use Algolia to provide deeper search functionality than in provided out-of-the-box by most content management systems. Algolia provides a richer search experience and is easy to integrate and configure.

Minpunten:

No direct drawbacks. We've used it successfully for many years, and our clients understand that to offer quality search functionality to their customers, incurs a cost. I say this as many of the existing reviews say Algolia is expensive.

Decent search for okay pricing

Opmerkingen: The algorithm can be quite good, but you need to twist te right knobs to get that result. This also goes for the implementation.

Pluspunten:

Algolia is a tool that comes with a lot of features. However, it's not as easy to implement as you would think.

Minpunten:

It was not "plug and play". The implementation is integrated in the website and you need to work on the interface before you can implement it correctly.

Super simple full-text search for Firebase

Opmerkingen: Super easy-to-use, feature-rich and developer-friendly.

Pluspunten:

Setting up full-text search of data stored in Firebase won't take longer than one day. Extremely easy-to-use ready-made components for Vue.js made our front-end developer happy and significantly reduced time to market.

Minpunten:

I see Algolia a bit expensive for the cases where full-text search is just a nice-to-have feature. However we made our front-end to display data from Algolia only (originally data was retrieved from Firebase), and this pays off.