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MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

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Re: MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

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Post by antpls »

dijit wrote: post #38
heipei wrote: post #20

I know the project doesn't claim it, but the title somewhat implies this: I honestly don't understand people claiming ElasticSearch is hard to operate, especially not at small scales. If anything, ElasticSearch for me has been one of the easiest pieces of infrastructure to operate, for me pretty much "zero-config". Let me elaborate: You can run ElasticSearch via Docker command-line, if you want a cluster you just sup…

Elasticsearch is easier than mongo in some ways and harder in others. I run a few 10TiB ES clusters (which, is not much to be fair) but infrequently find that I have to reindex or reshard the cluster because I can’t just add another node. There’s something to be said for understanding the index rotation too, and access patterns. It’s easy to make an ES cluster, it’s difficult to maintain one, it’s nearly impossible t…

> I run a few 10TiB ES clusters

For information, what does "10TiB" refer to in this context?

Is it the size of what ES takes in RAM, or the size of ES' index, or is it the total size of the corpus that ES must index? Or corpus size + index ?

Re: MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

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Post by bradrobertson »

Looks promising! Are there any docs coming on a production ready setup? Reading below it looks like you're working on high availability, but even in the single machine scenario, do you have recommendations for persistence, fault tolerance etc?

Re: MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

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Post by Kerollmops »

bradrobertson wrote: post #112

Looks promising! Are there any docs coming on a production ready setup? Reading below it looks like you're working on high availability, but even in the single machine scenario, do you have recommendations for persistence, fault tolerance etc?

I would say that you must add your own nginx (or else) in front of our HTTP only engine, in term of fault tolerance we are working on high availability.

Re: MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

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Post by jschumacher »

bberenberg wrote: post #107

Does any tool in this category (This, Elastic, or whatever else) support something like permissions on a per document level?

Hey B! Funny seeing you here. I'm now running product at http://sajari.com

You will find that most tools provide document level permissions to some degree by storing user/group IDs on the document and adding filters to the query. However, it generally requires custom implementation work to integrate it into your systems and prevent spoofing of the filters.

Hope you're doing well!

Re: MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

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Post by hyc_symas »

beagle3 wrote: post #51

Mostly "made in Rust", but from the github readme[0] "MeiliSearch uses LMDB as the internal key-value store. The key-value store allows us to handle updates and queries with small memory and CPU overheads."; so a lot of the credit goes to LMDB, and safety implied by "made in Rust" is not, in fact, guaranteed. Not that I'm complaining - I love LMDB, and it's been rock solid and bug free in my experience (thanks, Howar…

(I find this whole post ironic. We made LMDB as a standalone library so other projects could use it, of course. But for applications like this - scalable, fulltext search, nothing comes anywhere close to OpenLDAP. Somebody else in this thread mentioned "triple-digit queries per second" as if that was a difficult achievement. OpenLDAP handles queries with complex filters at millions of queries per second. It also has a complete security model, providing fine grained access control, something none of these newer projects have even begun to think about. You guys all need to study existing tech better before starting to write your own solutions...)

Re: MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

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Post by pixiemaster »

hyc_symas wrote: post #115
beagle3 wrote: post #51

Mostly "made in Rust", but from the github readme[0] "MeiliSearch uses LMDB as the internal key-value store. The key-value store allows us to handle updates and queries with small memory and CPU overheads."; so a lot of the credit goes to LMDB, and safety implied by "made in Rust" is not, in fact, guaranteed. Not that I'm complaining - I love LMDB, and it's been rock solid and bug free in my experience (thanks, Howar…

(I find this whole post ironic. We made LMDB as a standalone library so other projects could use it, of course. But for applications like this - scalable, fulltext search, nothing comes anywhere close to OpenLDAP. Somebody else in this thread mentioned "triple-digit queries per second" as if that was a difficult achievement. OpenLDAP handles queries with complex filters at millions of queries per second. It also has…

> You guys all need to study existing tech better before starting to write your own solutions

that would be a first

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