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Discussion on: Swapping Elasticsearch for Meilisearch in Rails feat. Docker

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Paweł Świątkowski

Funny thing: I user ElasticSearch a lot, but mainly not for search. It's a huge beast with a large overhead (also on devops side), so for use cases like simple search, it nice to see an alternative. I will try Meilisearch for sure.

However, it would be interesting to see how the comparison looks for larger datasets. Because let's be honest, 32k records does not even justify leaving pg_search ;)

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Archonic

People have built amazing things with the ELK stack for sure. The AI threat detection stuff is especially impressive.

Does pg_search have typo tolerance or synonyms? It certainly can't be beat in terms of simple devops. I look forward to one day writing an app that doesn't need more than pg_search.

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Paweł Świątkowski

Good points. You can do fuzzy searching to some extent in PostrgeSQL using trigrams: freecodecamp.org/news/fuzzy-string... But not sure about synonyms.