Best Way to Make a small database of books you can search the text of?

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  • MeiliSearch

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

  • A search engine like Elasticsearch is the way to go for this. And while ES has been the standard for this type of work for quite a long time now it is quite a heavy application. And there are some interesting alternatives out there now like meilisearch, sonic, tantivy that are worth checking out as well.

  • sonic

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

  • A search engine like Elasticsearch is the way to go for this. And while ES has been the standard for this type of work for quite a long time now it is quite a heavy application. And there are some interesting alternatives out there now like meilisearch, sonic, tantivy that are worth checking out as well.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • tantivy

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

  • A search engine like Elasticsearch is the way to go for this. And while ES has been the standard for this type of work for quite a long time now it is quite a heavy application. And there are some interesting alternatives out there now like meilisearch, sonic, tantivy that are worth checking out as well.

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