My talks about Microsoft Azure Search at Global Azure Bootcamp 2015 in Bandung.

6. Azure Search
for Your App
Nurul Arif Setiawan
CTO, Dycode
Microsoft Azure

7. {
name: “Nurul Arif Setiawan”,
twitter: “@ken121f”,
position: “CTO”,
company: “Dycode”,
stack: [“C++”, “Javascript”],
avatar:
}
GET /indexes/speakers/docs?search=arif

8. What is Search ?

9. What is Search?
where [field] like '%query%' isn’t a search
engine

10. What is Search?
Database index
Full text search index

11. What is Search?
Text Parsing
Stop word
removal
Stemming Full text index

12. What is Search?
Text Parsing
Stop word
removal
Stemming Full text index
akulah si telaga: berlayarlah di atasnya;
berlayarlah menyibakkan riak-riak kecil
yang menggerakkan bunga-bunga padma;
Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana
dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan
kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu

13. What is Search?
Text Parsing
Stop word
removal
Stemming Full text index
Akulah
si
telaga:
Berlayarlah
di
atasnya;
berlayarlah
Menyibakkan
riak-riak

14. What is Search?
Text Parsing
Stop word
removal
Stemming Full text index
Akulah
telaga:
Berlayarlah
berlayarlah
Menyibakkan
riak-riak

15. What is Search?
Text Parsing
Stop word
removal
Stemming Full text index
aku
telaga
layar
layar
sibak
riak

16. What is Search?
Text Parsing
Stop word
removal
Stemming Full text index
id terms Document : position
1 aku 1:1, 2:1
2 telaga 1:3
3 layar 1:4, 1:7
12 ingin 2,2
13 cinta 2,3

17. What is Search?
id terms Document : position
1 aku 1:1, 2:1
2 telaga 1:3
3 layar 1:4, 1:7
12 ingin 2:2
13 cinta 2:3
cinta => document no 2
Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana
dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan kayu
kepada api yang menjadikannya abu
cinta

18. Why Search ?

19. Search
E-commerce
Booking
Etc

20. Azure Search

21. Search servers
Apache Lucene
Elastic Search
Apache Solr
Endeca
Autonomy
Microsoft Search Server
Databases : MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc

22. SQL
Database
SQL Server
VM
DocumentDB
Search HDInsight
Additional
databases
Azure Search

23. Azure Search
Search-as-a-service for web and mobile
app development

24. Azure Search
Managed
High performance
Horizontally scalable
Elastic Search under the covers
REST API
.NET SDK Available

25. Simple REST API for creating indexes, pushing
documents, searching
Keyword search with user-friendly operators (+, -, *, “”,
etc.)
Hit highlighting
Faceting (histograms over ranges, typically used in
catalog browsing)
Search Functionality

26. Suggestions (auto-complete)
Rich structured queries (filter, select, sort) that
combines with search
Scoring profiles to model search result relevance
Geo-spatial support integrated in filtering, sorting and
ranking
Search Functionality

27. Suggestion

28. Faceting

29. Scoring Profiles
Control items relevance in the context of the current
search operation
Boosting items score by specific criteria
Weighting
Freshness
Magnitude
Distance

30. Azure Search Setup
Demo

31. Create New Search Service

32. Search Workflow
Create Index
Add or Update documents
Search

33. Search Index

34. Index
Predefined structure
Not dynamic
Field has characteristics
Update index function is limited

35. Index

36. Index Fields
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer

37. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Edm.String
Collection(Edm.String)
Edm.Int32
Edm.Int64
Edm.Double
Edm.Boolean
Edm.DateTimeOffset
Edm.GeographyPoint

38. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Full text search-able
Edm.String
Collection(Edm.String)

39. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Exact match
All types

40. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Sorting result
Default sorted by score
All except Collection(Edm.String)

41. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Used to group items
All except Edm.GeographyPoint

42. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Required!
Only one field for the document
Can be used to look up a
document directly
Update
Delete

43. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Set if field is shown in search result

44. Azure Search Index
Name
Type
Searchable
Filterable
Sortable
Facetable
Key
Retrievable
Analyzer
Stemming
Stop words
For non-english languange
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn879793.aspx

45. Basic Search API
Demo
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn798935.aspx

46. Azure Search
Create Index
POST https://[servicename].search.windows.net/indexes?api-
version=2015-02-28
Content-Type: application/json
api-key: [admin key]

47. Azure Search
Get Index
GET https://[service name].search.windows.net/indexes/[index
name]?api-version=2015-02-28
api-key: [admin key]

48. Azure Search
Add or Update Documents
POST https://[service name].search.windows.net/indexes/[index
name]/docs/index?api-version=2015-02-28
Content-Type: application/json
api-key: [admin key]

49. Azure Search
Search/Query Documents
GET https://[service name].search.windows.net/indexes/[index
name]/docs?[query parameters]&api-version=2015-02-28
Accept: application/json
api-key: [admin key]

50. Azure Search
Search/Query Parameters
search=string
searchFields=[string]
$orderby=[string]
$select=[string]
facet=[string]
$filter=[string]
highlight=[string]
scoringProfile=[string]
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn798927.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn798921.aspx

51. Azure Search Pricing

52. Pricing Tier

53. Scaling

54. Scaling
Search unit : Replica + Partition
Replica : More performance. Each replica store copy of
index (distributed read)
Partition : More documents (storage), faster ingestion
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn798934.aspx

55. More Search API
Demo

57. Questions ?

58. Thank you