Integration with Amazon CloudSearch

[sidbatra]

Amazon announced it's CloudSearch platform today - http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/

Sunspot's seamless Rails integration makes it an ideal match for Amazon CloudSearch.

It'll be sensational to see this integration. thanks!

[benmoss]

This doesn't seem like something that would belong inside Sunspot, since Sunspot is specifically for Solr.

[meatherly]

Would this blog post make a difference? http://www.lucidworks.com/blog/amazons-cloudsearch-gets-solr-powered/

[ma2kubo]

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[zrisher]

As Meatherly points out, CloudSearch is now powered by Solr. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide direct access to the Solr API. That blog post says this is on the CloudSearch roadmap. I can't find evidence of that anywhere else, though the bump in usage AWS would see from providing that makes it seem likely. Once that's done, using Sunspot with CloudSearch would be a relative breeze.

Until then, one could create an RSolr replacement that implements all the same methods, but using the AWS Ruby SDK V2. Then the two could be connected with a few minor changes to Sunspot (to allow client selection). I'd be happily surprised if anyone was willing to create that solution.

[penguinco]

amazon created sunspot like gem https://github.com/awslabs/cloudsearchable
I think this is better way.

[zrisher]

CloudSearchable falls short of Sunspot in a number of ways. The most fully-featured CloudSearch-specific gem is actually Asari. Check this list of what Sunspot has that Asari doesn't, most of this list applies directly to CloudSearchable as well.

You'll also notice this isn't a full AWS product, it's one of their "Labs" projects which don't come with official support or documentation. It hasn't been updated in a year and relies on the 2011 API, so no "Suggestions" or easy HTTPS setup with existing EC2 profiles.