Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres

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  • paradedb

    Postgres for Search and Analytics

  • Looking at benchmarks, they are incorrect, leading to a false statement that native full-text search indexes Postgres has (usually GIN indexes on tsvector columns) are slow.

    https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/blob/bb4f2890942b85be3e... – the here tsvector is build. But this is not an index. You need CREATE INDEX ... USING gin(search_vector);

    This mistake could be avoided if bencharks included query plans collected with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).

  • pgrx

    Build Postgres Extensions with Rust!

  • pgrx is one of the greatest enabling innovations in the PG ecosystem in a long time.

    Awesome to see so many high quality extensions come out of it.

    https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx

  • InfluxDB

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  • MeiliSearch

    A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow

  • Meilisearch seems like it is the best open source option.

    https://www.meilisearch.com/

  • tantivy

    Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

  • The issue for geo search is here: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/issues/44

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