have you seen the pricing? it's insane
Our pricing starts as low as $15 per month
The cheapest instance of amazon cloudsearch is around $79 monthly, You then have to deploy a transactional DBMS and then most likely S3 for storage as well.
the hosted version is upto 8gb ram, don't you think that's low ?
sqlserver + oracle are also insane
By the way Partitioning by Hash and Range as we have stated means "Sharding"
what i meant is that the correct price is 700 and not 350 since the 350 pricing doesn't include sharding/clustering
$700/year for enterprise-level solutions is generally regarded as suspiciously inexpensive.