AI-powered search as a service | Azure cognitive search
Are you facing any challenges while developing complex algorithms to optimize your database/document search in your application? Or are you expending a huge cost/budget to optimize your application search services? Microsoft provides a proper solution for you.
Microsoft's cognitive search service will be able to fulfill your requirement at affordable prices. Azure cognitive search service is with AI-capabilities that enrich all the types of information to easily identify and explore relevant content at scale.
The below diagram shows the basic architecture of the cognitive search service.
Let’s check how can we create a search service using our existing database.
Basic steps
- Create a Search service
- Create an index
- Create Datasource
- Create indexer
Let’s create a search service. for the creation of a search service, you should have an Azure account. log in to the Azure portal and click on the search service.
Next, click on the add service and fill the form.
While filling the above form you can mention the replicas and scalable details also. Once you complete search service creation. Then go back to the Azure portal home page and go to the newly created search service.
Then you will see Import data, Index, Indexer, Datasource options.
Here you have two options.
- Click on the import data option and continue. middle of the process you may need to create all the other components such as index, indexer, data source.
- Or else you can create Index, Datasource, and indexer by clicking on those options separately.
Once you create those components successfully you will be able to invoke search service and get the search result according to the query that you passed to the search service.
Sample search API call
curl -X GET \
‘https://demo-search.search.windows.net/indexes/demo-profile-index/docs?api-version=2020-06-30-Preview&moreLikeThis=5f2bc1ab5af6b82e52e36d39&searchFields=livingTags&%24top=20&%24skip=1' \
-H ‘api-key: 3D************************C4’