Amazon CloudSearch | Performance

Question 1

Does Amazon CloudSearch support geospatial search?

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Answer 1

Yes, Amazon CloudSearch has a native type to support latitude and longitude (latlon), so that you can easily implement geographically-based searching and sorting. For more information, see Searching and Ranking Results by Geographic Location in the Amazon CloudSearch Developer Guide.

Question 2

How quickly will my uploaded documents become searchable?

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Answer 2

Documents uploaded to a search domain typically become searchable within seconds to a few minutes.

Question 3

How many search requests can I send to my search domain?

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Answer 3

There is no intrinsic limit on the number of search requests that can be sent to a search domain.

Question 4

What factors affect the latency of my search requests?

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Answer 4

Your search requests are typically processed within a few hundred milliseconds, frequently much faster. Latency is affected by many factors including the time it takes for your request and responses to travel between your own application and your search domain, the complexity of your search request, and how heavily you are using your search domain.

Question 5

What makes one search request more complex than another?

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Answer 5

Amazon CloudSearch is designed to efficiently process a wide range of search requests very quickly. Search requests vary in complexity depending on the expressions that determine which documents match and additional criteria that determine how closely each document matches. Search requests that match a large number of documents take longer to process than those that match very few documents. Search requests that compute complex expressions take longer to process than those that rank using a simple criteria such as a single field. To help you understand the difference in complexity between Search requests, the time it took to process the request is returned as part of the response.