[atonse]

We've loved algolia for the 2-3 sites we've used it for. The speed is unbeatable.

I wish we could've used it for one of our HIPAA use cases (patient data). I could've rolled out powerful search for an internal site in a day, but instead I'm having to build in postgres full text search and looking longingly at them.

[jlemoine]

(I am the CTO and Co-founder), we are HIPAA compliant since 2020 and we can support your use case

[atonse]

Good to know. We’ll be in touch!

[SigmundA]

I wish some more effort would be put into Postgres full text search seems to have stagnated somewhat, it does a lot but is also lacking compared to say Lucene.

Not that its going to be as good as Algolia but it could be a whole lot better for many use cases specifically TF/IDF and BM25 scoring:

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum

[kolencherry]

Doesn't Algolia offer BAAs? I thought I had seen it as part of their Enterprise plan.

[jlemoine]

Yes indeed, it is recent (since 2020)

[toomuchtodo]

No hosted version for businesses who are running in a regulated environment?

[searchableguy]

Is elastic search not an option? I read they are compliant with hippa and other laws.

There are many open source alternatives to algolia too.

I am using meilli search - https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch atm. It works pretty well without taking huge resources.

Sonic is interesting too if you want something minimal - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

[JoshGlazebrook]

meilli looks very promising! Thanks for this.