orama VS Apache Solr

Orama, an open-source, edge-first hybrid search engine highlights the industry's shift towards more efficient, accurate, and scalable solutions. Recent trends indicate a shift from traditional search solutions to more modern and efficient answering engines like Orama, evidenced by the search features on both Node.js and SolidJS that were formerly powered by Algolia, but are now powered by Orama.

Let's break into the steps to utilize Orama and analyze how it works. I won't dig into the technical stuff because, hey, it's an open-source project, which means you can easily peek at the source code, no problemo!

If you are interested in it, you can learn more about it in the official documentation. And don't forget to follow Orama on Twitter and Michere Riva its CTO.

I'll use the Lyra repository for this article, so thanks to the Lyra contributors if this article has a great git history and awesome code.

You can checkout lyra, its in-memory full text search engine for javascript

There are already many project about search:

- https://www.marginalia.nu/

- https://searchmysite.net/

- https://lucene.apache.org/

- elastic search

- https://presearch.com/

- https://stract.com/

- https://wiby.me/

I think that all project are fun. I would like to see one succeeding at reaching mainstream level of attention.

I have also been gathering links meta data for some time. Maybe I will use them to feed any eventual self hosted search engine, or language model, if I decide to experiment with that.

- domains for seed https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

- bookmarks seed https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

- links for year https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024

Elasticsearch is based on Lucene and is used by various companies and developers across the world to build custom search solutions.

elastic search is kinda heavyweight infra for a small project. Its built on top of apache lucene (https://lucene.apache.org), which you can use directly.

Elasticsearch is based on Lucene, which is built in Java. This means that monitoring the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) memory is crucial to understand the current usage of the whole system.

Apache Lucene which seems to have a lot more features than Elasticsearch

Generally with term vectors and a tf-idf index. Lucene is a good starting place to help.

try elasticsearch or solr, behind the scenes they both use https://lucene.apache.org/ if you don't want basically a full nosql database service, but I'd just slap solr up and call it a day.

OpenSearch is an open-source database to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. It’s built on top of Apache Lucerce, a FOSS library for indexing and search, which OpenSearch leverages for more advanced analytics capabilities, like anomaly detection, machine learning, full-text search, and more.

Lucene is the thing you think you need. Elastic Search is a nice wrapper for it. But these are Java, so maybe you want Sphinx Search (C++) or MeiliSearch (Rust).