db-benchmarks VS Typesense

> I decided to experiment with this setup and the NY Taxi Dataset. The initial goal was to populate ElasticSearch with ~14 million rows, loading data from a compressed parquet file of ~350 MB.

> I tried multiple times, but the operation failed continuously, due to JVM memory constraints

Here's a script https://github.com/db-benchmarks/db-benchmarks/blob/main/tes... which loads 1.7B NYC taxi ride documents into Elasticsearch.

In general, you are correct about another missing key: since we added an exception for MySQL by including two keys, we should perhaps optimize it to the maximum and add the rest as well. However, it would be better to make this more visible directly within the results then. I've created a task about it https://github.com/db-benchmarks/db-benchmarks/issues/30 . Thank you for pointing this out. If you see more issues, feel free to file them on github.

> It's interesting to note that Elasticsearch and Opensearch are general purpose search engine, Solr as well. They are all powered by Lucene, the popular and performant search engine library.

Another search engine which can be considered general, is not based on Lucene and is not less powerful than Elasticsearch/Solr is Manticore Search [1]

[1]: https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

> I would love to see some benchmarks by category :)

I'd love too. We started this work on db-benchmarks [2] , hopefully we'll have resources to continue it. Contributions are very welcome. It's 100% opensource [3]

[2]: https://db-benchmarks.com/

Comparing full-text search engines on queries that aren't full-text search are of course slow, these tests should be adapted to the proper usage of the tested DBs and not just benchmarked across the board..

Example: https://db-benchmarks.com/?cache=fast_avg&engines=elasticsea...

Clickhouse: no tuning , just CREATE TABLE ... ENGINE = MergeTree() ORDER BY id and standard clickhouse-server docker image.

MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL: no tuning , just CREATE TABLE ..., FULLTEXT(story_text,story_author,comment_text,comment_author))and standard mysql docker image .

https://db-benchmarks.com is a platform and a framework for making the most fair, transparent and open source database and search engines benchmarks. No more benchmarketing, because:

There are actually plenty of non-ES products that are way easier to integrate and tune (and get better results with less effort).

- Typesense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense)

- Algolia

- Google Programmable Search Engine (https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/)

Typesense - Open Source Alternative to Algolia

If you like your penny take a look at Typesense https://typesense.org/ - nothing to complain here. Especially nothing complain about pricing.

I work on Typesense [1] (historically considered an open source alternative to Algolia).

We then launched vector search in Jan 2023, and just last week we launched the ability to generate embeddings from within Typesense.

You'd just need to send JSON data, and Typesense can generate embeddings for your data using OpenAI, PaLM API, or built-in models like S-BERT, E-5, etc (running on a GPU if you prefer) [2]

You can then do a hybrid (keyword + semantic) search by just sending the search keywords to Typesense, and Typesense will automatically generate embeddings for you internally and return a ranked list of keyword results weaved with semantic results (using Rank Fusion).

You can also combine filtering, faceting, typo tolerance, etc - the things Typesense already had.

[1] https://github.com/typesense/typesense

[2] https://typesense.org/docs/0.25.0/api/vector-search.html

For something small with a minimal footprint, I'd recommend Typesense. https://github.com/typesense/typesense

I haven’t used Publish, but I’d assume you could use something like https://typesense.org/ to index and search the vault.

A cheaper option would be to use https://typesense.org. You can use DynamoDb streams to automatically load records. It has worked well for me.

Try tigris | typesense for faster search

I’m also checking out Typesense as a possibility for replacing Elastic: https://typesense.org/