Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

dmux wrote: post #4

JshWright wrote: post #2

Is the name a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor... ?

I'd think so given their icon. Interesting name choice, nonetheless.

Oh, yep. I clicked right through to the code and didn't notice that.

Re: Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

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Post by mikece » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 3:16 PM UTC

Forgive my ignorance on the topic of full-text search but is this supposed to compete with Elastic or is this more of an alternative to Lucene? If the latter, then wouldn't you be limited to indexing text datasets small enough to stay in memory?

Re: Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

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Post by jxub » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #6

Forgive my ignorance on the topic of full-text search but is this supposed to compete with Elastic or is this more of an alternative to Lucene? If the latter, then wouldn't you be limited to indexing text datasets small enough to stay in memory?

Elastic is a distributed index which can't be said of Bleve afaik. Therefore, it's more like Lucene.

Re: Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

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Post by jchw » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 3:31 PM UTC

I actually used this recently in a small personal project, it's pretty good. It's not like Elastic or Solr, more like Lucene - which may very well be good enough for your use case. The index structures are stored in BoltDB (which stores in a flat file.)

There are some issues, though. For example I think it's currently not possible to use the built-in query language to search Boolean values. So you might run into some minor issues even in smaller projects.

Re: Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

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Post by tbrock » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 3:35 PM UTC

dcu wrote: post #3

Blast is a server on top of it: https://github.com/mosuka/blast

I’d love to see some benchmarks of this against Elasticsearch.

Re: Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

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Post by lux » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 3:38 PM UTC

Bleve is awesome! In a page worth of code, I was able to make a really simple search for our app's documentation that takes almost no resources. Elastic would have been massive overkill.