Search

Some interesting search engines / technologies that are not Lucene or ElasticSearch.

Most interesting engines

• https://typesense.org/ (open source alternative to Algolia)
• Sonic (see below)

Overview

https://spinscale.de/posts/2020-10-20-search-engines-and-libraries-overview.html -> Quite thourough overview.
Benchmarks: https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/

Interesting projects include:

• Sonic: https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic (Rust)
• Meilisearch: https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch (Rust)
• Tantivy: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy (Rust)
• Bleve: https://blevesearch.com/ (Go, bof actually)

Comparison of open source search engines

Client side

• https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch

UX

Posts

• https://www.algolia.com/blog/ux/faceted-search-and-navigation/

Books

• Designing the search experience (2013)
• Faceted seacrh (2009)

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