Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

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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

  • OP - congratulations on shipping! WASM-powered caught my eye.

    Looks like the search index is downloaded and used locally in the browser, so this is as fast as search can get. One trade-off though is that you're limited to relatively small datasets. While this shouldn't be an issue for small-medium static sites, an index that needs to be downloaded over the wire will affect your page performance for larger sites / datasets.

    In those cases, you'd want to use a dedicated search server like Algolia or its open source alternative Typesense [1]. Both of them store the index server-side and only return the relevant records that are searched for.

    For eg: you'd probably not want to download 2M records over the wire to search through them locally. [2] You're better off storing the index server-side.

    [1] https://github.com/typesense/typesense (shameless plug)

    [2] https://recipe-search.typesense.org/

  • gun

    An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.

  • > Merkle Search Trees: Efficient State-Based CRDTs in Open Networks https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02303490/document

    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7160577141569533185...

    Browser-side "Blockchain Certificate Transparency" applications need to support at least exact key lookup by domain/SAN and then also by cert fingerprint value; but the whole CT chain with every cert issue and revocation event is impractically large in terms of disk space.

    https://github.com/amark/gun#history may also be practically useful.

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