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by sandstrom 1229 days ago
Great news!

Been following along for a while and it's a great project. ElasticSearch needs some competition.

For us, there are two things missing for us before we could make the switch:

1. Multi-index search; Standard use-case is searching across e.g. users and companies. Common in many SaaS-applications, where you want a single search field with type-ahead for e.g. contacts/organisations/tasks/events.

2. Decay functions; Basically to gradually phase out results for things based on age, distance or something similar. ElasticSearch has pretty good support for these. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

2 comments

Thanks for your feedback! The Multi-index search is planned, coded, and will be integrated on v1.1 (scheduled for April). The decay function is really interesting, the team will reach you back to know more about this need :)
Elastic already has a great competitor called solr, which I prefer on multiple aspects over elastic by the way.