Why developers like Algolia

What is Algolia?

Our mission is to make you a search expert. Push data to our API to make it searchable in real time. Build your dream front end with one of our web or mobile UI libraries. Tune relevance and get analytics right from your dashboard.

Algolia is a tool in the Search as a Service category of a tech stack.

Algolia is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Algolia's open source repository on GitHub

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Who uses Algolia?

Companies

431 companies reportedly use Algolia in their tech stacks, including StackShare, Glovo, and medium.com.

StackShare

Glovo

medium.com

Client Platform

GitBook

Paralect

Product Hunt

Brilliant

Wealthsimple

Developers

681 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Algolia.

Realtime Search

Sambit-Projects

StartupWrench

frnwtr

ArcherSys OS Cashew

Current

My Magic

Personal preferences

Tech Stack

Algolia Integrations

JavaScript, React, Java, WordPress, and AngularJS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Algolia. Here's a list of all 33 tools that integrate with Algolia.

JavaScript

React

Java

WordPress

AngularJS

Vue.js

Ruby

React Native

Scala

Pros of Algolia

126

Ultra fast

Super easy to implement

Modern search engine

Excellent support

Easy setup, fast and relevant

Typos handling

Search analytics

Distributed Search Network

Designed to search records, not pages

Multiple datacenters

Smart Highlighting

Search as you type

Multi-attributes

Instantsearch.js

Super fast, easy to set up

Amazing uptime

Database search

Highly customizable

Great documentation

Github-awesome-autocomple

Realtime

Powerful Search

Places.js

Beautiful UI

Ok to use

Integrates with just about everything

Awesome aanltiycs and typos hnadling

Developer-friendly frontend libraries

Smooth platform

Fast response time

Github integration

Nooo

Fuck

Giitera

Is it fool

Decisions about Algolia

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Algolia in their tech stack.

Rana Usman Shahid

Chief Technology Officer at TechAvanza · Jun 4, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 386.8K views

Needs advice

Algolia

Elasticsearch

and

Firebase

Hey everybody! (1) I am developing an android application. I have data of around 3 million record (less than a TB). I want to save that data in the cloud. Which company provides the best cloud database services that would suit my scenario? It should be secured, long term useable, and provide better services. I decided to use Firebase Realtime database. Should I stick with Firebase or are there any other companies that provide a better service?

(2) I have the functionality of searching data in my app. Same data (less than a TB). Which search solution should I use in this case? I found Elasticsearch and Algolia search. It should be secure and fast. If any other company provides better services than these, please feel free to suggest them.

Thank you!

Triet Bui Minh

Android chapter Lead at Zalora · Apr 11, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 53.3K views

Needs advice

Algolia

Cloud Firestore

and

Google Cloud SQL

I want to develop a mobile app with Cloud Firestore as backend. It's good until I realize need to implement FullTextSearch, and Firestore doesn't support it natively. Although they advise to use Algolia but at this time I'm not willing to pay for it.

Therefore, I'm thinking about using the built-in tool from Google Cloud. Since this app is online-only, the offline & sync are not a top priority, so how about use Google Cloud SQL? Or, do you recommend any stack for me? Thanks for your advice.

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Blog Posts

How Stream Built a Modern RSS Reader With JavaScript

Jun 19 2018 at 3:02AM

Stream

+29

13603

Dubsmash: Scaling To 200 Million Users With 3 Engineers

Dec 14 2017 at 10:02AM

Dubsmash

+47

72674

How Algolia Reduces Latency For 21B Searches Per Month

Mar 30 2017 at 7:06AM

Algolia

+15

21068

The Stack That Helped Medium Scale To 2.6 Millennia Of Reading...

Oct 22 2015 at 8:05AM

Medium

+37

122

38097

Algolia's Features

Database search
Multi-attributes
Search as you type
Analytics dashboard
Ranking
Mobile
Search in any language
Understand users mistakes
Smart Highlighting
Realtime indexing
Protect your indexes from misuse
Discover realtime faceting
Search objects by location

Algolia Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Algolia?

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).

Solr

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.

Swiftype

Swiftype is the easiest way to add great search to your website or mobile application.

Azure Search

Azure Search makes it easy to add powerful and sophisticated search capabilities to your website or application. Quickly and easily tune search results and construct rich, fine-tuned ranking models to tie search results to business goals. Reliable throughput and storage provide fast search indexing and querying to support time-sensitive search scenarios.

Klevu

It is an intelligent site search solution designed to help eCommerce businesses increase onsite sales and improve the customer online shopping experience.

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