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If you're in the market for really fast search engines, I would recommend you take a look to typesense [1], instead; or even sonic [2], if it fits your use case. MeiliSearch does not give you anything on top of them (i.e. neither as feature complete as [1], not as fast as [2]).
And I personally stopped using them after a really bad experience I had with their "developers". They don't really care about you and it shows, also, they were kind of rude when I reported some bugs to them.
I moved to typesense and it's a whole different world, their creators love it that you're using their product; same thing with sonic, Valerian is the kind of hacker you'd want as a friend, super talented, super easy going, you could ask a completely dumb question on their GH and he takes the time to explain things to you at length. I know its open source, I know I didn't pay a dime, but for me, that kind of attitude makes it or break it. Plus, you actually get a superior product.
1: https://typesense.org/
After looking at various alternatives, I'm thinking of trying out https://vespa.ai/ [0]
[0] https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa
I've ran into the same "strip tags" issue. Having used ES before, that does sanitizing and stripping for you, at first I was dissapointed.
However, after thinking about it more, I wrote up this issue[0] with some ideas and thoughts so I could implement it as PR or work around it.
I ended up working around it, because that makes most sense: separation of concerns: meilisearch should indeed not get involved in stripping or fixing HTML as that i) ties Meili to HTML, ii) requires configuration and complexity to allow control and iii) adds features that become security-critical.
Indeed, my solution is to sanitize, clean and strip HTML before sending into the index.
https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/1409
They have another prototype engine with more advanced features and performance too.
https://github.com/meilisearch/milli
Went to have a look and found this...
Use PG's built in full text search capabilities:
https://hasura.io/blog/full-text-search-with-hasura-graphql-...
https://www.lateral.io/resources-blog/full-text-search-in-mi...
Extend those capabilities with pggroonga:
https://github.com/pgroonga/pgroonga
https://pgroonga.github.io/