Amazon CloudSearch vs Groonga: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon CloudSearch as "Set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application". Amazon CloudSearch enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages, document files, forum posts, or product information. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create a search domain, upload the data you want to make searchable to Amazon CloudSearch, and the search service automatically provisions the required technology resources and deploys a highly tuned search index. On the other hand, Groonga is detailed as "* An open-source full-text search engine and column store*". It is an embeddable super fast full text search engine. It can be embedded into MySQL. Mroonga is a storage engine that is based on it.

Amazon CloudSearch and Groonga can be primarily classified as "Search as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon CloudSearch are:

• Simple to Configure – You can make your data searchable using the AWS Management Console, API calls, or command line tools. Simply point to a sample set of data, and Amazon CloudSearch automatically proposes a list of index fields and a suggested configuration.
• Automatic Scaling For Data &amp
• Traffic – Amazon CloudSearch scales up and down seamlessly as the amount of data or query volume changes.

On the other hand, Groonga provides the following key features:

• Storage Engine
• Fast
• Easy to use