Is there a way to run it in WASM, to get something like Lunr[1]? We prefer to do our (small-index, [1] https://lunrjs.com/
You could have a look at https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/
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
#112Is 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…
Why would this not matter?
Built in Rust means no annoying GC pause, and that's important for a database.
And it also hopefully means less on-heap abuse.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#113Great news!
Been following along for a while and it's a great project. ElasticSearch needs some competition.
For us, there are two things missing for us before we could make the switch:
1. Multi-index search; Standard use-case is searching across e.g. users and companies. Common in many SaaS-applications, where you want a single search field with type-ahead for e.g. contacts/organisations/tasks/events.
2. Decay functions; Basically to gradually phase out results for things based on age, distance or something similar. ElasticSearch has pretty good support for these. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#114Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#115Does it have any kind of master/slave or replication abilities? Couldn't find anything in the docs.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#116Is 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…
An argument that I didn't see mentioned: when I see "search engine", I immediately think of ElasticSearch, which is Java, which requires a JVM.
Knowing Meilisearch is written in Rust makes me confident I can probably just run `./meilisearch` and get something working. I can also guess it'll be more resource efficient (CPU, memory) than ElasticSearch. I also *hate* ElasticSearch developer experience, and have had extremely good DX with Rust tools, so I can guess maybe their query language is saner. Maybe all this is wrong, but this is what I'm feeling when I see "written in Rust". So yeah, writing it conveys some meaning.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#117Does it have any kind of master/slave or replication abilities? Couldn't find anything in the docs.
Hello! No we don't yet, we are considering it though.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#118Is 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…
This info helps me decide to check out a project. I am familiar with Rust, so any project in Rust gets my attention quickly. If the title didn’t mention the language, I would first check the language used!
It’s an open-source search engine which one could self-host. Language and tooling matter a lot to me and is often deciding factor.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#119What language you write a program in is not a feature, definitely not a headline one.
Languages are not tools. Languages are materials. If you buy a house you are quite likely interested in what materials were used to build it. There are different features you'd expect from a wooden house vs concrete house.
Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
#120Is 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…
As someone who primarily writes rust for work, it appeals to me because I feel much more confident I can fix an issue myself if I need to. Same with python (which I'm equally familiar with), although I have much less confidence when modifying python code that I won't break something unrelated.