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  5. Searchkick vs Sheetlabs

Searchkick vs Sheetlabs

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Overview

Sheetlabs
Sheetlabs
Stacks1
Followers12
Votes1
Searchkick
Searchkick
Stacks18
Followers34
Votes1
GitHub Stars6.7K
Forks766

Searchkick vs Sheetlabs: What are the differences?

Developers describe Searchkick as "Intelligent search made easy". Searchkick learns what your users are looking for. As more people search, it gets smarter and the results get better. It’s friendly for developers - and magical for your users. On the other hand, Sheetlabs is detailed as "Turn your spreadsheets into APIs effortlessly". Drag & drop your data, name your API and choose what data people can see - that's it. Documentation is created automatically.

Searchkick and Sheetlabs are primarily classified as "Search Engines" and "Spreadsheets as a Backend" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Searchkick are:

  • stemming - tomatoes matches tomato
  • special characters - jalapeno matches jalapeño
  • extra whitespace - dishwasher matches dish washer

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

  • Import spreadsheets from CSV, XLS and XLSX formats. You can even Zip or Gzip your spreadsheets first. Replace or update spreadsheet data whenever you like
  • Create APIs from your data: define what queries can be made over the data, limit what data is returned and how much
  • Interact with the APIs in a variety of formats: JSON, XML, JSONP, YAML and PHP serialised arrays

Searchkick is an open source tool with 4.97K GitHub stars and 582 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Searchkick's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Sheetlabs
Sheetlabs
Searchkick
Searchkick

Drag & drop your data, name your API and choose what data people can see - that's it. Documentation is created automatically.

Searchkick learns what your users are looking for. As more people search, it gets smarter and the results get better. It’s friendly for developers - and magical for your users.

Import spreadsheets from CSV, XLS and XLSX formats. You can even Zip or Gzip your spreadsheets first. Replace or update spreadsheet data whenever you like;Create APIs from your data: define what queries can be made over the data, limit what data is returned and how much;Interact with the APIs in a variety of formats: JSON, XML, JSONP, YAML and PHP serialised arrays;Automatically generate detailed documentation and access bespoke code samples for your API, in common programming languages such as Java, C#, PHP and Javascript;Publish your APIs to whoever you like: a specific list of individuals, your entire organisation, or the entire planet;Create consumer accounts for people you want to access your APIs, or they can do it themselves and you simply approve/reject them;Analyse which APIs are used most frequently, what data is being requested, and who is doing the asking
stemming - tomatoes matches tomato;special characters - jalapeno matches jalapeño;extra whitespace - dishwasher matches dish washer;misspellings - zuchini matches zucchini;custom synonyms - qtip matches cotton swab;query like SQL - no need to learn a new query language;reindex without downtime;easily personalize results for each user;autocomplete;“Did you mean” suggestions;works with ActiveRecord and Mongoid
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
6.7K
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
766
Stacks
1
Stacks
18
Followers
12
Followers
34
Votes
1
Votes
1
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1
    Free tier does not lack any features
Pros
  • 1
    Open Source

What are some alternatives to Sheetlabs, Searchkick?

Airtable

Airtable

Working with Airtable is as fast and easy as editing a spreadsheet. But only Airtable is backed by the power of a full database, giving you rich features far beyond what a spreadsheet can offer.

Sphinx

Sphinx

It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.

MkDocs

MkDocs

It builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose. There's a stack of good looking themes available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes.

Sheetsu

Sheetsu

Use spreadsheet as your database. Give data to your users the nice way, directly from the tool you know. Without bothering webdeveloper.

Sheety

Sheety

Power websites, apps, or whatever you like, all from a spreadsheet. Changes to your spreadsheet update your API in realtime.

Lucene

Lucene

Lucene Core, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities.

Google

Google

Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.

YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB

An open-source, high-performance, distributed SQL database built for resilience and scale. Re-uses the upper half of PostgreSQL to offer advanced RDBMS features, architected to be fully distributed like Google Spanner.

sheet2api

sheet2api

Use any Google Sheets or Excel Online spreadsheet to power a fully-fledged API, no coding required.

Apache Solr

Apache Solr

It uses the tools you use to make application building a snap. It is built on the battle-tested Apache Zookeeper, it makes it easy to scale up and down.

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