[ademup]

I'm curious if this scales down well. The test was done on "One AWS c4.8xlarge with 36vCPU and 60GiB Memory". But could I run this on a tiny vps to index, search, catalog my million-odd documents?

[Scaevolus]

SQLite's FTS5 module works surprisingly well on that number of documents, and stores the search index on disk instead of RAM.

[theblackcat1002]

You can check out Sonic[1] and Tantivy[2] both are lightweight search engine

[1] https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

[2] https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy

[showerst]

I'd guess redis performs _better_ in that case since there minimum overhead for redis is much lower than elasticsearch.

[weavie]

Wouldn't Redis need to keep the whole dataset in memory?

[showerst]

In my experience to get decent "show off in benchmarks" performance with ES you want your index to fit in RAM as well, but I haven't done much work with ES outside of high RAM boxes.