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Next Generation Financial Search APIs on the Cloud

CloudSearch is a suite of APIs built to make searching market data easy. CloudSearch combines Xignite Market Data Cloud’s high-performance and scalable infrastructure with the unique search and analytics capabilities of Elasticsearch technology. With Xignite CloudSearch, you can dramatically improve the experience of millions of end-users with just a few lines of code.

Xignite TypeAhead GetSuggestions is the first of a revolutionary product line of zero-footprint search APIs built on CloudSearch. This API provides instant search suggestions to end users looking to resolve stock symbols, benchmark indices, fundamental types, currency pairs, and much more. Most financial applications or websites require TypeAhead-like functionality to compete. Most firms build such functionality themselves at great expense. With TypeAhead, you can implement this functionality in minutes.

Key Features

  • Easy RESTful API solution for autocompletion (a.k.a “type ahead”) feature in apps.
  • Hyper-fast suggestions while the user types.
  • Supports fuzzy search, which automatically corrects spelling errors.
  • Built on top of Elasticsearch, which is a highly distributed, scalable search and analytics engine.
  • Constantly refines the search matching with an adaptive search algorithm.
  • Scalable to millions of end-user devices and applications.

Key Benefits

  • Dramatically improve user experience in your trading, wealth management, compliance, or research applications in just minutes.
  • Reduce your cost of ownership by eliminating the need to build and operate any cache infrastructure required for typical type-ahead functionality.
  • Go to market quickly by integrating the functionality with just a few lines of code
  • Scale easily as your business grows with a hyper-performance search API.
Key Data Points
  • Asset Class Available for Searching: Equities, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Indices, Futures, Options, FX, Metals 
  • Data Points Available for Searching: 
    • Equities, ETFs, Mutual Funds: Security or Issuer Name, Symbol, Sector, Industry, Exchange, Currency, Equity Fundamental Types, Fund Types, Fund Fundamental Types, Estimate Types, Market Identification Codes (MIC) 
    • Indices: Index Name, Index Symbol, Index Group. 
    • Options: Symbol Identifier, Exchange 
    • FX & Metals: Currency Symbol, Metal Symbol