Xapiand: A fast, simple, modern search and storage engine

fwiw also 11 patch releases (meaning 0.8.z) since then https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand/releases

It's nice to see new search servers, especially low level ones. I'm going to give this a few tests.

Also worth mentioning is Toshi: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi

Toshi is to ElasticSearch as Tantivy is to Lucene if that makes sense.

Obviously as they are new they are not at feature parity, but Tantivy does win at some benchmarks: https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/

I was genuinely wondering recently why the Hackernews site search tool didn't show a very recent article with very obvious keywords, that google, for example, had in the first place in the results, when adding "Hn" to those 2 keywords in the search field. Is it a matter of the indexing, it means the article was too recent and it wasn't yet in the Algolia's(I believe) based HN's search tool memory; and in this case google copied it to memory faster; Or is this purely a matter of the Algorithms themselves? The algorithms for sure sound to be the matter, when the case is that of a search for an old article, that should be in memory already. It seems unnatural. Algolia has a free tier for open-source projects, what is very nice of them and thanks. I genuinely wonder if those algorithms are indeed so complex to justify those comparatively weaker behaviors seen at HN's internal search.