Azure Search

Azure Search is a search-as-a-service solution that allows developers to incorporate a sophisticated search experience into web and mobile applications without having to worry about the complexities of full-text search and without having to deploy, maintain or manage any infrastructure

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  1. Add graph databases to your data sources. Eg. Neo4j

    257 votes
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  2. Support Azure Active Directory Password Authentication in Azure Search SQL indexer

    Currently, using AAD Password Authentication mode as described in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-aad-authentication-configure#active-directory-password-authentication-1 fails. Please support this option.

    76 votes
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  3. Azure Search should be able to index Cosmos DB Table API accounts / collections

    Similar to the suggestion for MongoDB support

    45 votes
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  4. Increase Blob Indexer file size limits

    The "Blob indexer: maximum characters of content extracted from a blob" limit seems rather restrictive, 32K for free, 64K for standard and 4MB for everything else. Plus when this limit is reached all you see in the azure portal is

    [{ "key": null, "message": "Truncated extracted text to 32768 characters." }]

    It'd be useful to know which documents are affected.

    31 votes
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  5. Add an API for Text extraction from a file (or string/stream with file content)

    Indexer https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage/ does extraction of text from a file (document).
    Instead of using azure blob (extra implementation and usage charge) and delay with processing a document from there, client will have possibility to extract text from document and do mergeOrUpload content.

    We know when file content was changed (or a new file created) and would like to handle that our self.

    30 votes
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  6. Indexer (crawler) for Apache Cassandra API in Azure Cosmos DB

    Add an indexer/crawler for Apache Cassandra API in Azure Cosmos DB

    26 votes
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  7. Enable indexing of gzip compressed blobs

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46245505/indexing-gzipped-blobs-in-azure-search

    I am trying to setup Azure Search over Azure Blob. The json blobs are compressed using gzip.

    When I try to index the blobs as-is, I get the exception :

    "Error detecting index schema from data source: "Error processing blob https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/urlencodedname with content type ''. Status:UnsupportedMediaType, error:""

    Looks like Azure Search blob indexer does support indexing ZIP archives (application/zip MIME type), but not gzip-compressed files.

    25 votes
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    under review  ·  1 comment  ·  Crawlers  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  8. Add support to Blob indexer for OpenOffice formats

    Enable searching of OpenOffice documents stored in Azure Blob storage by adding support for indexing OpenOffice formats such as .odt, .ott, .oth, .odm, .ods, .ots, .odp, .odg, and .otp.

    18 votes
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  9. Add xpath syntax to promote out interesting values from source [XML] documents to predefined index fields

    I have lots of structured blobs (XML, JSON), I would like a mechanism to promote/extract a given field so it can be present in a specified index field rather than just rely on text in the content field? Or must I still run an external process to parse and write these promoted values instead of using built-in Azure Search features and the Data Source / Import process?

    13 votes
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    under review  ·  2 comments  ·  Crawlers  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  10. Add support for indexing PDF Custom meta data

    PDF Files allow custom meta data fields. In an archive it is good practice that the meta data is not separated from the document and hence we use the custom fields. We do however want to be able to search our archives don't want to have to write custom extractors to add the meta data to the index

    11 votes
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    under review  ·  1 comment  ·  Crawlers  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  11. index/crawl OneNote with deep links for results

    Be able to crawl OneNote with deep links for results

    10 votes
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  12. Ability to identify from what data source the index document was created

    While indexing multiple data sources(azure tables) into same index I'd like to identify what data source produces specific document. This will allow to reference back to the system that can show original document.

    7 votes
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    under review  ·  0 comments  ·  Crawlers  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  13. Support for indexing multi-line JSON files

    Support for indexing multi-line JSON files (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Streaming). Currently blob indexer extracts entire json file as one document.

    It would be also nice to pair this with the gzip support so that it will be able to index *.json.gz files

    3 votes
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  14. StorSimple

    Search over file shares in StorSimple

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