[benpacker]

The underlying engine, Tantivy, has better performance characteristics than Lucene.

You can compare Lucene to Tantivy and can compare Elasticsearch to pg_bm25 or ParadeDB

[fiedzia]

It's faster, but misses tons of features, starting with geosearch. Hopefully they will come with wider use.

[PSeitz]

The issue for geo search is here: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/issues/44