Scaling Indexing and Search – Algolia New Search Architecture

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  • Typesense

    Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences

  • Disclaimer: I work on an open source alternative to Algolia called Typesense [1]

    If I had a dollar for every time I've heard Algolia is expensive! And if I had a dollar for every time I've said that statement!

    If cost is an issue, definitely checkout Typesense. You can self-host it for free, or use the hosted Cloud version. In either case, I've seen savings of up to 96% in some cases compared to Algolia's pricing.

    [1] https://typesense.org

  • MeiliSearch

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

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • sonic

    🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

  • If you need fast but absolutely non customizable search that can live off a lot less than 1GB of RAM (less than 100MBs even) then you might have some success with https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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