Most applications and websites are built on top of a database, but none offer a satisfying full text search feature. Algolia was created to address this issue by providing a fast, reliable, and relevant search feature for application and website developers. In comparison to Elasticsearch, which is often used as a fall-back solution, Algolia consistently performs between 12 and 200 times faster for every search query. Additionally, Algolia offers superior user experience with its intuitive configuration of both relevance and matching, robust typo tolerance, and easy integration. While Elasticsearch is great for big data analysis or document search, it hasn't been designed for object searches like Algolia has.