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ParadeDB built a benchmark runner to make experimentation easy. This post looks at a real example over three iterations (with wildly different results).

We (ParadeDB) recently started building out our benchmarking infrastructure for cross-backend comparisons. Rather than taking the usual path of bundling a workload and execution in…

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This is great, no more lost terminal screens!

"If I had looked at the lexical search and BM25 space in 2016, I would have said it was solved, and that catching up would be nearly impossible." This interview with Tantivy creato…

Yeah I get that, I threw caution to the wind and did it (which I would normally never dO)

I have no affiliation with this product other than being a happy user, but man is it good for finding out exactly why and when your wifi is slow. Best feature for me being was bein…

This is a no-nonsense walkthrough of doing hybrid search inside Postgres without spinning up a separate search service. A few takeaway: - Postgres’s native `tsvector/ts_rank` stuff…

I know it sounds obvious, but some people are pretty determined to us it that way!

Hey HN! Author here. We added faceted search capabilities to our `pg_search` extension for Postgres, which is built on Tantivy (Rust's answer to Lucene). This brings Elasticsearch-…

Haha, I like “good old tokenization”

Amazing, will have a read!

Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc.. don’t work like this either. However, even though the approach is “old fashioned” it’s still widely used for English. I’m not sure there is a univer…

100%, maybe we should do a follow up on other types of tokenization.