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		MagicWishMonkey on May 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Algolia (YC W14) raises a $18.3M Series A 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.

ameyamk on May 21, 2015 [–]

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

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