Algolia's focus is not site-search but database search. That means we're not searching for long documents (web pages or pdf or ...) but for structured and multi

Algolia's focus is not site-search but database search. That means we're not searching for long documents (web pages or pdf or ...) but for structured and multi-attributes based records (often stored in a DB). Our engine was built from the ground up (no hidden ES/Solr/Lucene) to provide instant-search (not just "prefix" search) and to retrieve relevant results even from the first keystroke (to do that our engine computes lots of "stuffs" at indexing time).