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It index JSON data and provide REST end-point so you can expose it to any HTTP client system. I have a lot of faith in it that it won't be as lame as SQL full text search.
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![]() Guess what, Azure also jump in the Full Text Search engine PaaS as well, it is called Azure Search. It is too early judge or compare with its competitor like Elasticsearch, which is 4 years older. So don't expect to see huge amount of configuration and multi languages analysis support, beside English. The only feature that AS has but ES doesn't is, AS come with authorization feature build-in. It is available in Azure as preview version today, and you can try it for free as long as you have an active Azure subscription. It index JSON data and provide REST end-point so you can expose it to any HTTP client system. I have a lot of faith in it that it won't be as lame as SQL full text search. ![]() I did not find any low level technical document about AS yet to see what architecture platform that AS is based from. My speculation is more or less came from Apache Solr. Because there are number of features describe in Azure web page are very close to what Apache Solr does. Private search engine is seem to be the new thing for cloud computing provider to show off. I am waiting for Amazon and Google to come up with their own one.
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I recently played with Azure Cloud Service aka Web or Worker Role. I notice that it toke long time to deploy my package. In the package I had:
Then I run 20 client app simultaneously from my home, and run another 20 client app from another Internet end point (external IP address). I keep it running for 1 hour without any error. I was expecting
How come it take so long to deploy?Turn out that I have wrong expectation with it. ACS does what it suppose to do. To me ACS is in a blur line between Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Here are what I'll use ACS for:
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