[KajMagnus]

Thanks @tpayet and @fulmicoton for the info :- )

@fulmicoton and @tpayet, I'm thinking then if I want both full text search, and also faceted search, then Tantivy can do that, but at this time, MeiliSearch (and Typesense) don't do that?

( When I look here: https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch in the features list, I see no mentioning of faceted search. Whilst Tantivy does list faceted search as a feature: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy )

@tpayet, for a database like MeiliSearch, is faceted search typically always off-topic? Or you're thinking about adding faceted search, later on?

(My use case is 1) full text search, 2) typo friendly, and with 3) e.g. "begin" matching also "began", "begun", and "run" also matching "running", and 4) in all lanugages, and 5) faceted-search restricted to tags and categories and user groups.)

[karterk]

Typesense does support faceted search. Look for the `facet_by` example in this section: https://typesense.org/docs/0.11.1/api/#search-collection

[KajMagnus]

Thanks! Based on what I read about Typesense, I'm thinking this faceted search happens in-memory (so one would want ok much RAM)

[tpayet]

You are welcome.

MeiliSearch does not offer faceted search yet. It is one of the key feature that we are still missing but we plan to work on it in the coming weeks.

For your use case today, I suggest you use Typesense if it fits your needs ( they handle faceted search already ) or Tantivy or Toshi.

To manage different languages, you should make one index per language. MeiliSearch and Tantivy handles kanjis! We will add faceted search in the coming weeks if you are not in a hurry :D

[KajMagnus]

Thanks for the info :- )

As of now, my project uses ElasticSearch — it works fine, but it wants lots of RAM which I find slightly annoying, ... and the new Java v 9, 10, 11 etc feels a bit worrying. — So, as of now I'm just staying up-to-date with new Rust based search engines.