Which Search Engines do you use and why?

[alexander-schranz]

There are a lot of different search engines. In SEAL we are already supporting Elasticsearch, Opensearch, Algolia, Meilisearch, Redisearch, Typesense, Solr and Loupe.

I want to know which Search Engines do you use and why? Even if you are not using SEAL or a supported search engine of SEAL.

So my questions are:

• What Search Engines do you use?
• Which features do you use of your Search Engines?
• How did you decide to use it?

[Ocramius]

What Search Engines do you use?

PostgreSQL, ManticoreSearch.

Which features do you use of your Search Engines?

Fuzzy search, multi-language support, aggregation, faceting, relational operations

How did you decide to use it?

PostgreSQL is old/stable and extremely good for non-aggregation operations. Hosted solutions exist everywhere.

ManticoreSearch kinda "happened", but is extremely fast at aggregations, although a very wonky engine with its own quirks that one needs to learn to live with.

[alexander-schranz]

Thx for your response. What are typical aggregation / facetings you have todo? Aggregation sure a topic which is on my list also for SEAL.

ManticoreSearch was something I also look into it but did sadly not yet get it work in all cases the way I expected it to fulfill yet when I tried it.

[Ocramius]

The usual scenario is:

• "find possible prices" or "find colours"
• but only for customer x
• and only for user group y
• and only when in category z or sub-categories

This is roughly e-commerce stuff with more detailed access control.

[eislambey]

What Search Engines do you use?

Typesense

Which features do you use of your Search Engines?

• Search as you type
• Curations
• Geo search
• Synonyms

How did you decide to use it?

it's easy to implement, has good demos on their website and provides hosted service.

[alexander-schranz]

Curations / Overrides looks like a nice feature of typesense thanks for your response here :)

[Crovitche-1623]

Meilisearch. Handy for supporting typos and for its speed.

[alexander-schranz]

They have a really nice SDK/API very friendly for even people not very deep in the search topic.

[steeven-th]

What Search Engines do you use?
Algolia

Which features do you use of your Search Engines?
Multi-languages
Typo-tolerance
Synonyms

How did you decide to use it?
Free usage for 10k search requests / month

[alexander-schranz]

Do you use replicas in Algolia for example for different sortings?

[steeven-th]

The situation hasn’t arisen, but if we had to, yes.