Searching in catalogs via Azure Search
To create the Azure Search service, you need to enter into the Azure portal and go to New | Data + Storage | Azure Search. Similar to other Azure services, you need to select:
A lowercase name for the public and global endpoint (
.search.windows.net)The resource group
The location where the service is deployed
The pricing tier
You pay for what you use. Azure Search can be classified as a NoSQL key/value store database, as it stores JSON objects in indexes for subsequent search and access. The features include:
The pricing is the expression of resources
Partitions, as the data is distributed to perform searches in parallel
Search units, as a virtual unit of computing
25 GB and 15 million documents per partition
Note
At the time of writing this book (Fall 2015), only two pricing levels are available: free tier, which is described as a non-production level service, and standard tier, which is generically expensive. It is probable that in the future, new tiers will...
