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While this might be an alternative for that one specific use case (search bar), it does not feel like a viable alternative to ES. I am sure it is great at that
by Bedon292 7y ago
While this might be an alternative for that one specific use case (search bar), it does not feel like a viable alternative to ES. I am sure it is great at that specific case, and don't want to knock them on that. But, I have never used ES for a simple search like they are. when I use ES, I want to store billions of records redundantly and search them by text, time, and/or location. And then create visualizations with the results.
When I first read the title I thought it might be a Rust based Lucene engine or something, and thought that would be pretty cool. Though no idea how that would work. On its own, this is a pretty nifty little tool, however I think the framing as an ES alternative is what feels wrong to me, and apparently others in the comments as well.
- nicoburns 7y agohttps://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy is a Rust based Lucene-alike.
- ellimilial 7y agoSeconding. Text searching is a horribly hairy problem. I know 2 businesses for which the main source of income is tuning ES/Solr to particular user needs. Starting from performance, through templating case-specific queries to custom plugins.
- mst 7y agoI've seen ES used for meilisearch's precise use case quite a few times before now. So it's not "an alternative to ES in general", it's "a thing designed to be an alternative for a subset of ES use cases", and the comparison document is pretty clear about this. https://docs.meilisearch.com/resources/comparison_to_alternatives.html https://docs.meilisearch.com/resources/comparison_to_alterna...