Typesense Alternatives

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• ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-02
• Building an concise search engine for my website - where to start?
  reddit.com/r/AskProgramming | 2021-02-28

  Have a look at Typesense, which is an open source alternative to Algolia: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

• Here's the source code for my movie indexer
  reddit.com/r/opendirectories | 2021-02-16

  The code that I just put on Github looks through an OD for movies, gets detailed information from those movies (like director, genre, rating, ...) and stores it in an index. It gets the movie data from http://www.omdbapi.com/ and stores it in a https://typesense.org/ cloud instance.

• search functionality for laravel
  reddit.com/r/laravel | 2021-02-11

  Have a look at Typesense, which is an open source alternative to Algolia, and gives you the same instant search experience like this.

• Amazon: Not OK – why we had to change Elastic licensing
  reddit.com/r/programming | 2021-01-19

  There are also alternatives like Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

• Elastic Moving to SSPL
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-14

  Adding Typesense to the list as an easier-to-use alternative to ElasticSearch: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

  One thing to point out though is that Typesense, MeiliSearch (and Algolia) are designed for Instant Search experiences, and so hold the entire index in memory. So for petabyte scale data (like logs) it might be wasteful (and expensive) to store that size of data in memory. This is where ElasticSearch shines and of course comes with it the overhead of managing it.

• Weekly Feedback Post Saas Products Ideas Companies
  reddit.com/r/SaaS | 2021-01-03

  A friend and I are working on Typesense, which is an open source search alternative to Algolia that can be self-hosted or used as a SaaS.

• Mealie - A Self Hosted Recipe Manager Alpha Release
  reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2021-01-02

  It relies on Typesense, which can also be self-hosted: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

• Real-time search with React Native and Firestore
  reddit.com/r/reactnative | 2020-12-31
• Search Functionality - What would you recommend?
  reddit.com/r/webdev | 2020-12-28

  Typesense looks like the best solution to me.

• Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
  news.ycombinator.com | 2020-12-27

  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/

• A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014)
  news.ycombinator.com | 2020-12-27

  It's interesting that the idea for ES was born while working on a cooking app.

  I'm working on an open source alternative to Algolia, called Typesense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense) and just earlier this month I built a site to showcase Typesense search on a 2M cooking recipes dataset:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365397

  There's something about searching and cooking I guess!

• Search Bar
  reddit.com/r/HTML | 2020-12-26

  Algolia can get expensive at scale. There’s also Typesense which is an open source alternative to Algolia: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

• Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
  news.ycombinator.com | 2020-12-25

  Have a look at Typesense as well which is an OSS alternative to Algolia: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

• Easiest way to find 100s of Open-source alternatives for commercial software
  news.ycombinator.com | 2020-12-23

  I just submitted the Algolia OSS alternative I’m working on to the list: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

  I’ll report back on how much traffic this brings.

  So far awesomeopensource.com has brought the most traffic among all the directories mentioned in this thread.