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Sorry to hijack the thread but can anyone suggest alternatives to the 'search' side of Elasticsearch? I haven't been following the topic and there's probably n

Sorry to hijack the thread but can anyone suggest alternatives to the 'search' side of Elasticsearch? I haven't been following the topic and there's probably new and interesting developments like ClickHouse is for logging.

ericcholis 6y ago
https://typesense.org/ https://typesense.org/ comes to mind. Has support for Algolia's instantsearch.js as well.
drewda 6y ago
Not sure if it's "new" but it's always interesting: Postgres offers a fine set of full-text search functionality, with the advantage of being able to also use the other ways in which Postgres shines: document-like data (storing JSON in columns), horizontal replication, PostGIS, and so on.
stanmancan 6y ago
Someone recommended Meilisearch the other day. I've been playing around with it and it's pretty great so far. Still early in the project right now.
abrookins 6y ago
You can use Redis for full-text search and some more SQL-like queries, including aggregations, with RediSearch: https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/ https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/
jetter 6y ago
https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch gets a lot of traction recently. There are also Sphinx and its fork https://manticoresearch.com/ https://manticoresearch.com/ - very lightweight and fast.
- tgtweak 6y ago
  I immediately thought of Sphinx when I saw MeiliSearch... it's uncanny how the use case and implementation semantics haven't changed much in 15 years. The beauty of pointing it to your mysql tables and getting fulltext-via-api on the other side was quite nice.
KaoruAoiShiho 6y ago
I just use elasticsearch, nothing wrong with it so far.
gravypod 6y ago
I'm personally very fond of sonic [0] for full text search. > Sonic can be used as a simple alternative to super-heavy and full-featured search backends such as Elasticsearch in some use-cases. It is capable of normalizing natural language search queries, auto-completing a search query and providing the most relevant results for a query.... > When reviewing Elasticsearch (ELS) and others, we found those were full-featured heavyweight systems that did not scale well with Crisp's freemium-based cost structure. > At the end, we decided to build our own search backend, designed to be simple and lightweight on resources [0] - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
- moralestapia 6y ago
  >It is used to index half a billion objects on a $5/mth 1-vCPU SSD cloud server (as of 2019). Damn. Thank you! This looks very nice!
johnx123-up 6y ago
FWIW... 1. Toshi https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi (Rust, 3.1k stars) 2. Tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy (Rust, 4.5k stars) 3. PISA https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa (C++, 486 stars) 4. Bleve https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve (Go, 7.4k stars) 5. Sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic (Rust, 10.9k stars) 6. Partial comparison https://mosuka.github.io/search-benchmark-game/ https://mosuka.github.io/search-benchmark-game/ (tantivy Vs lucene Vs pisa Vs bleve) 7. Bayard https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard (Rust, on top of Tantivy, 1.4k stars) 8. Blast https://github.com/mosuka/blast https://github.com/mosuka/blast (Go, on top of Bleve, 930 stars) Algolia alternatives with some compatibility 1. MeiliSearch https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch (Rust, 12.4k stars) 2. typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense (C++, 5.1k stars)
- moralestapia 6y ago
  Wow! Thank you!

ericcholis 6y ago

https://typesense.org/ https://typesense.org/ comes to mind. Has support for Algolia's instantsearch.js as well.

drewda 6y ago

Not sure if it's "new" but it's always interesting: Postgres offers a fine set of full-text search functionality, with the advantage of being able to also use the other ways in which Postgres shines: document-like data (storing JSON in columns), horizontal replication, PostGIS, and so on.

stanmancan 6y ago

Someone recommended Meilisearch the other day. I've been playing around with it and it's pretty great so far. Still early in the project right now.

abrookins 6y ago

You can use Redis for full-text search and some more SQL-like queries, including aggregations, with RediSearch: https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/ https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/

jetter 6y ago

https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch gets a lot of traction recently. There are also Sphinx and its fork https://manticoresearch.com/ https://manticoresearch.com/ - very lightweight and fast.

tgtweak 6y ago
I immediately thought of Sphinx when I saw MeiliSearch... it's uncanny how the use case and implementation semantics haven't changed much in 15 years. The beauty of pointing it to your mysql tables and getting fulltext-via-api on the other side was quite nice.

KaoruAoiShiho 6y ago

I just use elasticsearch, nothing wrong with it so far.

gravypod 6y ago

I'm personally very fond of sonic [0] for full text search. > Sonic can be used as a simple alternative to super-heavy and full-featured search backends such as Elasticsearch in some use-cases. It is capable of normalizing natural language search queries, auto-completing a search query and providing the most relevant results for a query.... > When reviewing Elasticsearch (ELS) and others, we found those were full-featured heavyweight systems that did not scale well with Crisp's freemium-based cost structure. > At the end, we decided to build our own search backend, designed to be simple and lightweight on resources [0] - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

moralestapia 6y ago
>It is used to index half a billion objects on a $5/mth 1-vCPU SSD cloud server (as of 2019). Damn. Thank you! This looks very nice!

johnx123-up 6y ago

FWIW... 1. Toshi https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi (Rust, 3.1k stars) 2. Tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy (Rust, 4.5k stars) 3. PISA https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa (C++, 486 stars) 4. Bleve https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve (Go, 7.4k stars) 5. Sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic (Rust, 10.9k stars) 6. Partial comparison https://mosuka.github.io/search-benchmark-game/ https://mosuka.github.io/search-benchmark-game/ (tantivy Vs lucene Vs pisa Vs bleve) 7. Bayard https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard (Rust, on top of Tantivy, 1.4k stars) 8. Blast https://github.com/mosuka/blast https://github.com/mosuka/blast (Go, on top of Bleve, 930 stars) Algolia alternatives with some compatibility 1. MeiliSearch https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch (Rust, 12.4k stars) 2. typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense (C++, 5.1k stars)

moralestapia 6y ago
Wow! Thank you!