Yes. I use it as a replacement for sphinx when it went closed. Very impressed with the documentation, the support on slack. It’s much faster than the last version of sphinx and more stable for me. This is searching over 300 million documents about 1TB in size.
Is it a replacement for elasticsearch? Maybe. Depends on your search requirements. I prefer elastic when you have power users needing to search over specific fields, and all of the syntax that it gives you. For a plain text box you want people to type terms into though manticore is much easier to configure.
Scaling is not a good as elastic currently but you don’t need it as soon due to its lower footprint.
That said I’m about to replace it with my own custom index, but that’s not because manticore is a problem. Just that I can do better for my specific use case. I’m abusing manticore in ways it’s not happy about. For other projects I’d happily use it again.
We use it in Freepik, Flaticon and Slidesgo. It has a good performance and I find the source code easy to read / understand. It lacks some features from Elasticsearch, like CJK tokenizers, but we were able to work around that.
I use it at work. Sphinx search has been powering our text search since the inception in 2008 and was scaling greatly. In 2021 we've moved from to Manticore without any hiccups.
It's now handling index over 280M+ documents and has been drama-free - just works.
I never trust clients listed on a site unless I've personally spoken to the client. You never know if it's "we use it for all our traffic" or "we use it for one tiny feature that's barely used and was made as a hackathon project a couple years back."
Is it a replacement for elasticsearch? Maybe. Depends on your search requirements. I prefer elastic when you have power users needing to search over specific fields, and all of the syntax that it gives you. For a plain text box you want people to type terms into though manticore is much easier to configure.
Scaling is not a good as elastic currently but you don’t need it as soon due to its lower footprint.
That said I’m about to replace it with my own custom index, but that’s not because manticore is a problem. Just that I can do better for my specific use case. I’m abusing manticore in ways it’s not happy about. For other projects I’d happily use it again.