Deploy Algolia Engine
👉 10,000 Free Search Queries/Mo • Lightning API
Deploy OpenSearch Core
👉 100% Open Source Apache 2.0 • Community Driven
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.
OpenSearch
- Free Tier Allowance
- Open Source
- Rate Limit Cap
- Cluster Bound
- MFA Support
- Enforced via AWS IAM and OpenSearch dashboard access policies
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Supported on Amazon OpenSearch Service with SAML and Cognito federation
- Custom Domain Support
- VPC-bound domains with AWS PrivateLink and custom endpoint routing
- Supported SDKs
- JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, .NET, REST, OpenSearch DSL
- Social Providers
- AWS IAM and corporate SSO for OpenSearch Service authentication
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA Eligible, PCI-DSS Compliant, FedRAMP Moderate
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Alerting plugins and event-driven indexing with configurable retry policies
Insight: OpenSearch
Enable k-NN vector search plugins early when building hybrid retrieval pipelines to avoid reindexing after traffic scales.