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postgres-elasticsearch-fdw
- Full-text search engine with PostgreSQL (part 2): Postgres vs. Elasticsearch
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Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
My experience with Postgres FTS (did a comparison with Elastic a couple years back), is that filtering works fine and is speedy enough, but ranking crumbles when the resulting set is large.
If you have a large-ish data set with lots of similar data (4M addresses and location names was the test case), Postgres FTS just doesn't perform.
There is no index that helps scoring results. You would have to install an extension like RUM index (https://github.com/postgrespro/rum) to improve this, which may or may not be an option (often not if you use managed databases).
If you want a best of both worlds, one could investigate this extensions (again, often not an option for managed databases): https://github.com/matthewfranglen/postgres-elasticsearch-fd...
Either way, writing something that indexes your postgres database into elastic/opensearch is a one time investment that usually pays off in the long run.
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Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features
I used a foreign data wrapper to query elasticsearch indexes from within postgres.[0]
It pushed alot of complexity down away from higher-level app developers not familiar with ES patterns.
[0]: https://github.com/matthewfranglen/postgres-elasticsearch-fd...
Toshi
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Tantivy 0.20 is released: Schemaless column store, Schemaless aggregations, Phrase prefix queries, Percentiles, and more...
I don't think you have an active project that addresses all those use cases. There was an attempt in Rust with Toshi that is built on top of tantivy, but the project seems to have stalled.
- An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
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Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
I wish we had an extension like ZomboDB but using a lighter search engine like https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit, https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi and https://github.com/mosuka/bayard
Here I'm listing engines based on https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - tantivy is comparable to Lucene in its scope - but I'm sure there are other engines that could tackle ElasticSearch.
Another thing that could happen is maybe directly embed tantivy in Postgres using an extension, perhaps this could be an option too.
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Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I do something similar, though I index the page myself via a little browser extension I wrote. I click a button, the content gets POSTed to a server that throws it in Toshi[1]. I hacked it together on a Saturday, and it's been pretty handy; as you describe, much more useful than any bookmarking approach I've tried before.
[1] https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi
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*set Edge as default browser*
There is some incredible work being done in the web department, frameworks like rocket.rs and actix.rs are amazing. To get the latest info on web development in Rust, check arewewebyet.org. It doesn't list Toshi though, which is weird.
- Zinc Search engine. A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go.
- Zinc Search engine. A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go
- AWS releases forked Elasticsearch code. Announces new name: OpenSearc
What are some alternatives?
rum - RUM access method - inverted index with additional information in posting lists
elasticsearch-rs - Official Elasticsearch Rust Client
tbls - tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go.
MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow
pg-ulid - ULID Functions for PostgreSQL
narg - A tool to generate LC/AP formulas for a given seed in Noita.
pgvector - Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
sonic - 🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
postgres-elasticsearch-fd
lnx - ⚡ Insanely fast, 🌟 Feature-rich searching. lnx is the adaptable, typo tollerant deployment of the tantivy search engine.
js-id - ID generation for JavaScript & TypeScript Applications
OpenSearch - 🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.