Best Site Search Engine with AEM

Hi @jooca,

this depends on your requirements, usually starting with a simple AEM search is OK for the MVP, but things get more complicated later in case you want to add facets or index data from 3rd party systems.

In case you already know you will have complex search requirements, implementing it with pure AEM can be complex and time-consuming. I suggest you take a look at solutions like https://www.addsearch.com/ or https://www.algolia.com/. I've been using AddSearch for 4 years on my very complex AEM project and it has proven to be a good choice for us.

Good luck,

Daniel

Hi Jooca,

There are multiple solution's at which you can integrate search with AEM for the best performance. Best in terms of performance would be to use the Lucene based search, due to technology it offer's 1-2 MS respons'es normally. Both Solr and Elastic are based on Lucene.

When SOLR was popular there were plenty of good implementation's and integrations:

https://github.com/headwirecom/aem-solr-search - notable implementation from Headwire,

There are quite good ElasticSearch integration's out there too. https://medium.com/@vinodh.sampath/site-search-with-es-and-aem-3086f8154bef

Please note, best performance does not mean, most relevant or accurate results.

Regards,

Peter

@jooca as every one stated it all depends on your requirements and your organization vision.

You should choose your search engine based on ease of implementation,  scalability,  api availability,  cost, AI capabilities and lastly it's integration/plugin availability with AEM.

Please evaluate Lucidworks Fusion, Cover, Algolia

Hi @jooca 

We have integrated Lucidworks Search in some projects and it works seamlessly.

It scans AEM sites with standard indexing of sitemaps and provides variety of options to filter and sort data.

If you have any question regarding the integration, Please feel free to ask here.

Thanks,

Nupur

Hello @jooca 

The best search platform depends on use cases, budget, long term plan etc.

 Sinequa (Connectors List - Sinequa) can be used for multiple projects for AEM. It has good performance in terms of indexing and providing indexed data. One thing we faced initially was you need to work with the Sinequa vendors to understand and develop better. The support was very good. 

It has lot more to offer as well so if it fits for company's other needs it can be utilized.

It depends on what are your requirement for search functionality.

Hello @jooca,

Hope you are doing fine.

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Hi @jooca ,

There are multiple things you need to consider before zeroing out on a solution.

This include volume of content, filtering capabilities you are looking for , integrations , cloud / on prem option you want to consider looking at cost options 

Few examples if you are looking for cloud based . Coveo is one option because of its AI capabilities and pre built AEM connectors 

Solr - Good open source enterprise search platform combined with zoo keeper can give you better perf and scalability