Amazon CloudSearch vs Qbox.io: What are the differences?

What is Amazon CloudSearch? 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.

What is Qbox.io? Dedicated cloud hosting for Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and SoftLayer. Qbox is supported, dedicated, hosted Elasticsearch - the bleeding edge of full-text search and analytics. We provide an intuitive interface to provision, secure, and monitor ES clusters in Amazon EC2 and Rackspace datacenters everywhere.

Amazon CloudSearch and Qbox.io belong to "Search as a Service" category of the tech stack.

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, Qbox.io provides the following key features:

• Global availability
• 24x7 support
• Reserved cloud resources