elasticsearch-py VS Typesense

FD: I have a friend who works at Elastic, though he doesn't really colour my opinions of things.

> Firstly, dick moves like this: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/pull/1623

I understand that this is unpopular, but you can make a very strong argument that it's to prevent weird errors in the future. I'm also guilty of littering my code with Asserts to ensure the universe is working fine.

The alternative is to allow it to work and then you end up with weird issues like when you connect mysql client to mariadb server (and vice-versa): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50169576/mysql-8-0-11-er...

> Secondly, I don't buy the argument from Elastic any more. Yes, the ethical thing to do when you're making money from someone's work is at least contribute back. At the same time though, they're making money from packaging it up and selling it _as a service_. That "as a service" part is where they're making the bucks.

That's just an opinion, yes they have a service, and yes it competes with Amazon. Is it cool for Amazon to take a body of work and sell it without supporting it? Are amazon actually supporting it? Is it the same as Elastic using Lucene? (not really because Elastic submits a the majority of fixes to Lucene, but, you get it).

it's kinda gray, I'm sure Amazon thinks they're the good guy, but it's hard for me to look at Elastic as the bad guy in all this.

Oh man, https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/1734 is a disappointing read. I know ES wants to save their business, but alienating users isn't exactly the path to success.

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/