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by rpedela 3085 days ago
> You could lean on the relevancy strategies built in to ES, but in my experience you're better off understanding what relevancy means for your dataset and implementing a strategy yourself.

Ranking is hard. You SHOULD lean on the tools available in Lucene/Solr/ES. PG's ranking tools are a joke in comparison.

> The options and tools for configuring and tweaking relevancy between ES and PostgreSQL's FTS are surprisingly similar for many application use cases.

That simply isn't true.

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I don't the sense of the article is that PG FTS is better than ES , but in some situation, as the one I illustrated in my article, you can implement a the same search function with both of them, but with if have PG already in your stack configuring and using it with Django is very simple and convenient.