[HN Gopher] Meilisearch Expands Search Power with Arroy's Filter...
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       Meilisearch Expands Search Power with Arroy's Filtered Disk ANN
        
       Author : Kerollmops
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2023-12-24 08:16 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | sgt101 wrote:
       | feels like product placement dressed as a blog
        
         | Kerollmops wrote:
         | It's my own company and I work hard on both Meilisearch, the
         | keyword search part since 2018 and the soon-to-be-released
         | semantic search part. The hybrid search will be also part of
         | the v1.6 release in january. I took time to write those three
         | blog posts.
         | 
         | What do you think about the blog posts content?
        
           | sroussey wrote:
           | Is there a way to make this a bundled library (more like
           | sqlite) than a server (more like postgresql)?
           | 
           | I want to have something running local and bundled into an
           | app for friends, maybe more.
        
         | _a_a_a_ wrote:
         | It's information-dense and informative (also over my head). As
         | such it feels absolutely nothing like product placement. I
         | think you're being needlessly cynical.
        
       | ko_pivot wrote:
       | This is great. The only major thing Meilisearch is missing after
       | hybrid search is introduced IMO is high availability. Without
       | clustering, it's hard to run any meaningful production workloads
       | and there doesn't seem to be an online upgrades story.
        
         | Kerollmops wrote:
         | Indeed, you are right about this. This is why we will release
         | geo-replication on the cloud in Q1 next year. We heard you and
         | worked hard on both of those features. We already have a great
         | working proof-of-concept.
        
       | goestoo wrote:
       | I tested Meilisearch last year indexing 10mil documents it took 2
       | days! same dataset with the same server specs it took less than 2
       | hours to index in elasticsearch.
        
         | Kerollmops wrote:
         | Thank you for the feedback. You should probably look at our
         | blog post explaining how to index in smarter way [1]. You
         | should probably come and talk to us on Discord. We work with
         | MrBeast and they don't have any issue indexing millions of
         | YouTube videos everyday.
         | 
         | Ho! And just to tease you a little bit. We highly improved the
         | indexing speed of Meilisearch v1.6 (january 24). Here is a
         | teasing tweet [2].
         | 
         | [1]: https://blog.meilisearch.com/best-practices-for-faster-
         | index... [2]:
         | https://x.com/kerollmops/status/1734576622303404317
        
           | simonw wrote:
           | Why does MrBeast index millions of YouTube videos?
        
             | Kerollmops wrote:
             | They recently released a new YouTube stats website and they
             | use Meilisearch in the frontend.
             | 
             | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38681328
        
           | milkshakes wrote:
           | a lot of people will never read your blog, or visit your
           | discord but would be quite interested in using a tool like
           | meilisearch. you're correct that the information is out
           | there, but unless you put it right in front of them, such
           | people will have a bad time (and sometimes complain about it,
           | publicly!).
        
         | supz_k wrote:
         | We recently re-indexed comments to Meilisearch (a PHP process
         | that synced data from MYSQL to Meilisearch) after a Meilisearch
         | version upgrade. It only took about 1 hour for about 12 million
         | documents on a 16GB/4vCPU. In your case, maybe it was a config
         | issue? Or, an old version?
        
           | Kerollmops wrote:
           | And when you'll use the v1.6 you see a much better indexation
           | speed.
           | 
           | https://x.com/kerollmops/status/1734576622303404317
        
       | wg0 wrote:
       | I'm thinking of putting this for software documentation. The idea
       | is that content is all markdown in Astro or Seveltkit with SSG
       | (static site generation) and then Index it all at build time and
       | then search it all via Meliesearch.
        
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