Every ecommerce website owner wants to increase traffic and sales, and this is possible when users can easily search for and find products they’re ...
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Great blog post! As a developer who works with eCommerce platforms, I can say that the search functionality is critical to any online store's success. For businesses looking to hire Magento developers to optimize their eCommerce store's search functionality, it's essential to partner with an experienced and knowledgeable team.
I've only worked with Algolia and Elastic Search, so chiming in on those.
Algolia is hands down a million times easier to work with, and since it doesn't run on your own server you don't need 8GB RAM to run it. Granted you pay for the 3rd party service, but it's relatively cheap for a business that relies on having a good search tool, and being able to run searches on tens of thousands of products in under 2ms is freaking great.
Elastic Search is more technically demanding and requires you to know more server side stuff in order to get it working right. Having to install it yourself also means scaling it for high traffic environments is more work. It does good work and you can configure it easily, once you know how, the first time is a mess though.
All in all, Algolia is just a more modern experience, but with it come the same issues you see with any document database service. Their APIs work...but are a pain in the ass because things just aren't structured like old school APIs. Overall once you get things running it's great.
Does anyone have experience with the others?