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Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

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Redis Cloud Pro can run in your VPC.

Great. How? Is that recommended? What kind of user rights I need to give redis to manage that instance in my vpc? How to lock that down to the minimum without breaking it? In that configuration, what risks do I have to control for otherwise? ...

All these details should be covered by https://docs.redislabs.com/5.2/rv/how-to/creating-aws-user-r...

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#53

Any advantages over Elasticsearch? EDIT: I did read the article, though I overlooked the link to comparison with Elasticsearch.

Did you even read the article? There's a link in there whith benchmarks it against elasticsearch. Read the conclusion on: https://redislabs.com/blog/search-benchmarking-redisearch-vs...

You mean (SHOCK!) that the company that sells Redis thinks their product is better than a competitor!? Color me shocked!

I'd like to see actual independent feature and performance comparisons before I come to any actual conclusions.

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#54
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> Cluster Support and Commercial Version: RediSearch has a distributed cluster version that can scale to billions of documents and hundreds of servers. However, it is only available as part of Redis Labs Enterprise. This is a bummer because high availability is really important for many search uses cases. For e.g. think about e-commerce where search literally prints money. EDIT: it seems like the open source version…

Applications where software "literally prints money" are the best possible carve-out to require commercial licensing.

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#55
Good for them on building a business around redis.

That said, fuck paying for some bolt-on approximation of a search engine with no real durability. I'll use elastic or solr.

They're free, and have massive communities and user-bases. Issues are surfaced quickly. Compatibility is a priority. And all the other benefits of network effects.

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#56

I was under the impression that Redis was intended for short-lived data, but a full text search suggests otherwise. Are people using Redis, with persisted storage, as their database?

Yes, in a strange way: I use Stream-Framework by GetStream (curiously moved away from it to GS today).

The backend storage for stream activities is Redis. It's lightweight and fast enough for most use cases.

Sure, not a full on database use case... But it is data that is persisted.

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#57
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Any advantages over Elasticsearch? EDIT: I did read the article, though I overlooked the link to comparison with Elasticsearch.

One of the things I find so confusing with Elasticsearch is querying. Constructing a complex JSON document for a simple query just doesn't fit my brain. I have tried to put this down to bad/confusing documentation, but I'm not sure anymore. It seems Redis is moving a bit in the same direction - although not as complex as ES has done it. Being able to run this inside a Redis instance is a big win, although I suspect f…

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-redis-l...

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#58

Any advantages over Elasticsearch? EDIT: I did read the article, though I overlooked the link to comparison with Elasticsearch.

Did you even read the article? There's a link in there whith benchmarks it against elasticsearch. Read the conclusion on: https://redislabs.com/blog/search-benchmarking-redisearch-vs...

Color me skeptical anytime a company benchmarks their product against the competition.

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#59
I think it's not terrible - redis itself is just brilant ! But wow a search-redis ? I think they have a lotttt of ground to make up to compete in the search space. The amount of options/analysis/tokenization/other-search features you get out the box from anything Lucene based (solr,elastic) is just staggering.

Re: RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

#60

Good for them on building a business around redis. That said, fuck paying for some bolt-on approximation of a search engine with no real durability. I'll use elastic or solr. They're free, and have massive communities and user-bases. Issues are surfaced quickly. Compatibility is a priority. And all the other benefits of network effects.

>fuck paying for some bolt-on approximation of a search engine with no real durability

Presumably you're storing your data elsewhere and pumping it into Redis for search

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