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Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search

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adeptima ◴[14 Apr 25 14:56 UTC] No.43682013[source]▶
Meilisearch is great, used it for a quick demo

However if you need a full-text search similar to Apache Lucene, my go-to options are based on Tantivy

Tantivy https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

Asian language, BM25 scoring, Natural query language, JSON fields indexing support are all must-have features for me

Quickwit - https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit - https://quickwit.io/docs/get-started/quickstart

ParadeDB - https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb

I'm still looking for a systematic approach to make a hybrid search (combined full-text with embedding vectors).

Any thoughts on up-to-date hybrid search experience are greatly appreciated

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1. Kerollmops ◴[14 Apr 25 16:32 UTC] No.43683120[source]▶
> I'm still looking for a systematic approach to make a hybrid search (combined full-text with embedding vectors).

You know that Meilisearch is the way to go, right? Tantivy, even though, I love the product, doesn't support vector search. Its Hybrid search is stunningly good. You can try it on our demo [1].

[1]: https://wheretowatch.meilisearch.com/

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2. oulipo ◴[14 Apr 25 19:16 UTC] No.43685056[source]▶
why couldn't it be possible to just embed Meilisearch/Tantivy/Quickwit inside Postgres as a plugin to simplify the setup?
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3. Kerollmops ◴[14 Apr 25 20:01 UTC] No.43685664[source]▶
> [..] to simplify the setup?

It would be simpler to keep Meilisearch and its key-value store out of Postgres' WAL and stuff and better propose a good SQL exporter (in the plan).

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4. oulipo ◴[15 Apr 25 08:58 UTC] No.43690520{3}[source]▶
Perhaps on a technical level, but for a dev, if I just need to install Postgres and some plugins and, boom, I have a full searchable index, it's even easier