Proposal for Cloud Search Engine as a Service

In cloud and big data era, search engine is important. Especially, data is collected to cloud now. So, search engine that search documents in cloud is required. We developed Cooperative Search Engine (CSE), which is a distributed search engine suited for fresh information retrieval. Furthermore, we have developed Cloud Search Engine (ClSe), which is based on CSE and extended for searching data stored into cloud. However, in order to use ClSe, it is necessary to provide ClSe as all-in package and by deploying all components in suited way. This is not so easy. So, in this paper, we propose a service that provides ClSe as all-in-package in cloud. We call such a service CSEaaS (Cloud Search Engine as a Service). In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of CSEaaS. In CSEaaS, we realize easy setting and flexible deployment of ClSe. Furthermore, we show 3 typical use cases of ClSe.