Deploy Algolia Engine
👉 10,000 Free Search Queries/Mo • Lightning API
Deploy Elasticsearch
👉 Open Source Core • Unbound Enterprise Cluster Search
Algolia Search API
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Algolia dashboard MFA and team access controls
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Available on Premium and Enterprise plans with SAML SSO
- Custom Domain Support
- Custom search domains and secured API keys on paid tiers
- Supported SDKs
- JavaScript, React, Vue, iOS, Android, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, .NET
- Social Providers
- GitHub and Google OAuth for dashboard authentication
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA BAA on Enterprise
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Indexing webhooks with retry via Algolia tasks API and monitoring alerts
Insight: Algolia Search API
Use replica indices for sorting strategies instead of overloading a single index with conflicting ranking formulas.
Elasticsearch
- Free Tier Allowance
- Self-Hosted Only
- Rate Limit Cap
- Cluster Bound
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Elastic Cloud console MFA and SAML-enforced organization login
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Supported on Enterprise plans with SAML, OIDC, and RBAC
- Custom Domain Support
- Custom domains and private endpoints on Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- Supported SDKs
- JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET, REST, Elasticsearch DSL
- Social Providers
- Google and corporate SSO for Elastic Cloud account management
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR on Enterprise tiers
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Watcher alerts and ingest pipelines with dead-letter index replay patterns
Insight: Elasticsearch
Use index lifecycle management to roll hot indices to warm tiers and control storage costs on long-retention log data.