[boesboes]

As a former Sphinx user: awesome, looking forward to trying this out.

Elastic just gives me grief all the time, sphinx always just worked perfectly for me. Perhaps ES can do more, but I've never found sphinx lacking for the usecase I run into.

I'm seeing a lot push abck about the simplistic benchmarks, and sure, they are super meaningful perhaps. But they do give you a good idea of where the strengths of this might be. Benchmarks are pretty meaningless anyway imo.

Also, I am just very happy to see there is ANY alternative engine to Lucene. A bit of competing ideas is very healthy for the ecosystem. Lucene has been pretty much the only solution for years and I don't think that is sustainable.

[mr-karan]

I think LogQL[1] is a pretty good alternative to Lucene search syntax. It feels more natural and human friendly for searching logs.

[1]: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/logql/