How does Meilisearch compare to ElasticSearch from an operational point of view? I've experienced ElasticSearch to be quite painful to maintain, requiring lots of manual tweaking to balance shards and careful design of indices.
Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
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Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#12How does Meilisearch compare to ElasticSearch from an operational point of view? I've experienced ElasticSearch to be quite painful to maintain, requiring lots of manual tweaking to balance shards and careful design of indices.
That's the point! We don't ambition to compete with Elastic on everything (logs, analytics, etc). We are doing search for front-end users with a strong focus on relevancy, speed & developer experience.
You can read a bit more on our documentation https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/compa...
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#13We’ve been using a Meilisearch for the last six months or so and have been delighted with its performance and usability. It uses a fraction of the resources as Elasticsearch, and the language support is extensive and very active. That being said, our cluster is much smaller than other ones I’ve worked with in the past, so I can’t comment on its reliability at massive scale. I’ve also been very impressed with how acti…
This is the thing I find when people post "ElasticSearch Alternative".
80% of ElasticSearch's value add (wrt search anyway) is all the clustering and frame work that allows you to span the search over tens or hundreds of machines "easily".
I think the same is true here. Probably the comparison should be with the underlying search libraries that ES sits on.
I suppose this comparison makes sense in a world where most people don't run their own servers much any more since the clustering etc would be a problem for the cloud offering and not the consumer.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#14Congrats team. Meilisearch is an absolute joy to work with.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#15Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter? 4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A" It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner s…
It is important. Rust projects are infinitely easier to contribute to.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#16Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter? 4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A" It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner s…
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For me, "built in Rust" can be a real marketing argument. Indeed, Rust is a language that has proved its safety in the past. Building a technical product in Rust guarantees stability and safety (no memory issues in general) and performance (no garbage collector issue), so it brings more trust to the users.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#17Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter? 4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A" It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner s…
I'm not a Rust dev, but I am the target market for this product and I kinda care that it's written in Rust. That gives me some (possibly entirely wrong) confidence that it's likely to be a single binary, easily installed, fast and relatively safe.
More broadly, if there had been two headlines on the front page today and the other said "Open source search engine written in Node / JS" I would make assumptions about the 7 million dependencies and endless security updates in every single one of them that I'd have to monitor. Obviously I would also skip straight past that one. So yes, the technology choice is important.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#18Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter? 4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A" It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner s…
It is important. Rust projects are infinitely easier to contribute to.
Compared to what?
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#19compared to https://typesense.org/ ?
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#20My team tried to use Meilisearch for large datasets, unfortunately, it's impossible to plan the RAM usage. If you have very little searches, it consumed very little, but if you have a lot of search traffic, it may consume more than we could provision beforehand. This made it too unpredictable and too expensive, so we went with Manticore instead. I don't know if this has been addressed in 1.0, hopefully it has.