Postgres FTS vs the new wave of search engines

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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

    Typesense

  • OpenSearch

    🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.

    OpenSearch

  • 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.

  • pgx

    Discontinued Build Postgres Extensions with Rust! [Moved to: https://github.com/tcdi/pgrx] (by tcdi)

    BTW one nice easter egg is that with pgx there is actually no reason that we can't build even better search solutions inside the database itself.

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