Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search • Hacker News Board

Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

#1

Post by apoorvamehta » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:01 PM UTC

Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search
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Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by asnyder » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:38 PM UTC

This looks pretty good. Though many of the features are already baked into PostgreSQL's full-text search, out of the box this seems to add enough value to get me interested. I'll definitely be checking this out further.

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by jmduke » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

This may be a dumb question, but does Instacart use Searchkick?

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by shiftb » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:44 PM UTC

jmduke wrote: post #3

This may be a dumb question, but does Instacart use Searchkick?

Yes, Instacart uses Searchkick.

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by sheraz » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:59 PM UTC

asnyder wrote: post #2

This looks pretty good. Though many of the features are already baked into PostgreSQL's full-text search, out of the box this seems to add enough value to get me interested. I'll definitely be checking this out further.

Upvoted, and I'll pile on. Wordnet [1] already has addons for Postgres.

[1] - https://github.com/taotetek/wordnet-postgres

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by MitziMoto » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:00 PM UTC

asnyder wrote: post #2

This looks pretty good. Though many of the features are already baked into PostgreSQL's full-text search, out of the box this seems to add enough value to get me interested. I'll definitely be checking this out further.

I recently had to implement search on my product and found Postgres' full-text search to be fairly impressive. More than enough for what I needed.

Implemented through the wonderful textacular gem: https://github.com/textacular/textacular

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by druiid » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:07 PM UTC

Looks very cool! Going to play around with it some. Is this a first open release of the project or is it in quiet use other places than Instacart?

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by apoorvamehta » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

asnyder wrote: post #2

This looks pretty good. Though many of the features are already baked into PostgreSQL's full-text search, out of the box this seems to add enough value to get me interested. I'll definitely be checking this out further.

Interesting. I'll have to look into PostgreSQL's full text search. Does it support token filters similar to Elasticsearch?

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by fowkswe » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

This is really nice. Thanks.

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by kapilvt » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

Elasticsearch should be the bootstrap of search imo. Afaics the only interesting bit in this project is the reindex technique. The rest is just trying to make a nice rails idiomatic client library (perhaps for ruby too) around search querying. For a python idiomatic client lib comparison, see mozilla services http://elasticutils.readthedocs.org/en/latest/