pagefind VS heed

Pagefind is a static search library that aims to perform well on small or large sites, while using as little bandwidth as possible, and you don't have to host any infrastructure.

In theory, if we ran lower level code, we would be using less resources. That's more than a theory. Go to this video where I demonstrate Pagefind, written in Rust and compiled to Wasm as target, as a static app that ingests and indexes HTML documents and runs super efficient search queries, all client-side.

✅ Pagefind static search library integration

I use Astro SSG and Cloudflare Pages. I use https://github.com/cloudcannon/pagefind for search on my Astro setup. You can test the search functionality here https://tinyrocket.pages.dev/.

From its repo: "Pagefind runs after any static site generator and automatically indexes the built static files. Pagefind then outputs a static search bundle to your website, and exposes a JavaScript search API that can be used anywhere on your site."

Pagefind is cool!

An option there is https://pagefind.app/ — not as fast as a persistent server but solves some of the deployment and bandwidth issues.

At Meilisearch we are currently trying to add a better error handling in heed v0.20, our LMDB key-value store wrapper. Unfortunately, when there are a lot of generics it can become harder to play with…

There are issues and pull requests but I advise you to look at the milli folder in the Meilisearch repository, it’s where all the logic is done. We extensively use RoaringBitmaps, heed the LMDB wrapper and grenad when indexing.

I’ll continue to introduce new features and new safety guards until v0.20.0. Can you tell me more about your project? Or is it private?

LMDB support multiple readers and one writer at the same time. It is ensured by the library. Note that LMDB is a key-value store. You can use the heed library which is the most maintained Rust wrapper.

Note that heed is ensuring that you are not trying to use transactions, databases and environments in the right way. I have added much more work in that regard in the important update that I am working on too!

I am currently working on exposing the new LMDB encryption feature from heed the safe LMDB wrapper with the help of the Cryptography community.

Have you considered heed or even sanakirja?

rkv hasn't been updated for a while. I recommend using heed - https://docs.rs/heed

For wrappers around LMBD, I'd recommend RKV or Heed https://github.com/mozilla/rkv https://github.com/Kerollmops/heed