SAN FRANCISCO, CA, DECEMBER 10, 2024—Algolia, the world’s only end-to-end AI Search platform, today unveiled Algolia Data Transformations, a powerful new data preparation tool to improve the quality of data to be indexed by customers. Developers can now easily apply Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) functions to enrich the data indexed in Algolia, leading to superior search and retrieval results. 

Developers are perpetually struggling with imperfect data—from catalogs, feeds, and numerous, diverse content sources. This is the classic data challenge requiring fine-tuning and perfecting several times a day, while others surface as blockers to new launches and collaborations. This data needs to be transformed and perfected as it becomes part of Algolia’s high-performance search index. Traditional search engines (until now) have offloaded this responsibility to external systems to transform data into the optimal format for understanding and search performance.

Algolia Data Transformations is purpose-built for search specialists and developers tasked with managing data pipelines. With a library of pre-built helper functions that work as step-by-step instructions to take advantage of the flexibility to create custom transformations. This tool simplifies even the most complex data preparation tasks, optimizing data for more precise search outcomes and seamless discovery experiences. 

Bharat Guruprakash, Chief Product Officer, Algolia, noted: “At Algolia, AI is woven into every layer of our search platform, from understanding complex queries to hybrid search retrieval and intelligent ranking. Data—both its scale and quality—is the lifeblood of AI-powered search performance. Companies that enhance the quality of their ever-growing datasets will gain a significant competitive edge. With Algolia Data Transformations, we are enabling businesses to effortlessly streamline their data integration, boost data quality, and maximize their search capabilities.”

Key Features and Technical Highlights

Algolia Data Transformations helps developers with managing data quality:

• Data Transformation Functions: Pre-built, use case-driven functions address common scenarios (e.g., hierarchical categorization, custom ranking, and value bucketing). Developers can also create, save, edit, and clone custom transformations through a code editor, empowering teams to handle unique data preparation needs.
• Integrated Code Editor: A powerful code editor with autocomplete, sampling, and debugging features, enabling developers to create precise and customized data transformations.
• Data Integration  Workflow: Algolia Data Transformations now enables search specialists to use an embedded ETL within the Algolia interface, handling data preparation and formatting alongside data loading.
• Multiple Transformation Use Cases: Perform a wide range of data manipulations, including adding, removing, or normalizing attributes; filtering records; calculating discounts; changing data types; applying scoring models; assigning weighting values; and creating hierarchical category structures.
• Comprehensive Monitoring: With detailed logging features, teams have full visibility into the transformation process, making debugging, and auditing a breeze.
• Post-Indexing Data Transformations: Transform data after it has been indexed, providing further flexibility in optimizing search results.

Algolia Data Transformations is available now, helping organizations unlock the full potential of their data and improve their search capabilities with unparalleled ease.

About Algolia

Algolia is a leading provider of AI search solutions, serving over 17,000 businesses and 500,000 developers globally. Renowned for its user-friendly API-First platform and the fastest AI search technology, Algolia is the largest hosted search engine, trusted by businesses and developers for 1.75 trillion searches per year. Backed by a decade of innovation, expertise, and growth, Algolia continuously redefines the search landscape with its commitment to user-friendly solutions, significant scalability, and unmatched speed. Learn more: www.algolia.com.