[dcaylor]

How does this compare to the various existing Lucene based search options for CouchDB? The post says the new Cloudant Search "is a way that would not require you to set up a third-party, financially or operationally expensive solution." Adding basic Lucene searches to a CouchDB setup isn't all that hard. What about elasticsearch and solr? Aside from the cost and hosting, are there other differentiaters between Cloudant's Search and these third party options?

[timanglade]

I already responded to this partly in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764736 — We think the integration into a single deployment is in itself a big gain. Maintaining several of those infrastructures can be very painful, especially as your clusters grow large. Also, as mentioned, we’ve also already added several features on top of Lucene, and we’ll be adding more in the future.

[dcaylor]

Yes, thank you. Just after I posted my question here I realized that much of what I was wondering about was also answered in another post on the Cloudant blog: http://blog.cloudant.com/technical-look-at-cloudant-search/