• derpgon@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Very well written article. I’d like some performance comparison aswell, because ElasticSearch can already do less than 20ms on a 100k documents, with each having more than 10 queries fields.

    Of course, for simple sites, this is great!

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      1 year ago

      Eh, I’d assume the comparison isn’t flattering. I think the point of this article is to argue you don’t need ElasticSearch to implement a competent Full Text Search for most applications. Splitting hairs over a few milliseconds would just distract from that point, when most applications should be prioritizing simplicity and maintainability over such tiny gains in a reasonable dataset.

      Might be interesting to try to analyze at exactly what point elasticsearch becomes significantly useful, however. Maybe at the point where it saves a full tenth of a second? Or where it’s returning in half the time? Could be an interesting follow up article.