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Algolia is mind blowing. We are replacing mysql backend with algolia and its bringing down latencies from 300-400 ms down to 10-20 ms. Things like out of the box multi location support and full text search etc makes algolia compelling choice.

All this at $49/ month is actually a good deal!

I wish them well.

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Did you try Solr or ElasticSearch before deciding to go with Algolia? Comparing them to MySQL is a bit of an apples/orange comparison, I would like to know how they compare to other search platforms.

Well. Setting up your own Solr/ elastic search would cost lot more than $49. Here you have a benefit of having platform as a service too

Have you checked out Crate.IO? https://crate.io/overview as an "SQL for Elasticsearch" option.

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