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> Cluster Support and Commercial Version: RediSearch has a distributed cluster version that can scale to billions of documents and hundreds of servers. However,
by karterk 6y ago
> Cluster Support and Commercial Version: RediSearch has a distributed cluster version that can scale to billions of documents and hundreds of servers. However, it is only available as part of Redis Labs Enterprise.
This is a bummer because high availability is really important for many search uses cases. For e.g. think about e-commerce where search literally prints money.
EDIT: it seems like the open source version supports a read-only replica for failover but my overall thoughts about not crippling/compromising the clustering story in open source version still stands.
While I understand the rationale for this move, unfortunately not having HA in a non-starter.
I had a similar temptation when open-sourcing Typesense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense) and thought long and hard about keeping clustering as part of a closed source commercial edition but eventually decided against it. I understand that commercialising certain features is a necessarily evil and trade-offs must be made. However, I think there are still many avenues to do that without keeping clustering closed source.
Apart from that, I am happy to see the search space heating up with a lot more interesting options.
Disclosure: I have stakes in the open source search eco-system (https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense) but a genuine Redis fan.
- crawlcrawler 6y ago>> search literally prints money Citation is needed. A counter-point to yours would be how Amazon's search is horrible, because horrible search prints money.
- karterk 6y ago> A counter-point to yours would be how Amazon's search is horrible Citation needed as well :) What I actually meant is that for a class of use cases like e-commerce, search is an important feature with a direct impact on revenue. For example, search in e-commerce enables product discovery. So a downtime hits your revenue directly.
- gkorland 6y agoHA is available and doesn't require Redis Labs Enterprise, the comment above refer to what is called "Redis Cluster" meaning sharding
- karterk 6y agoThanks, it seems like read-only replication is supported. I've updated my comment.
- IAmEveryone 6y agoApplications where software "literally prints money" are the best possible carve-out to require commercial licensing.
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoIf scalable search is so important to the business and "literally prints money" then maybe that business will consider paying for it.