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by ZeroCool2u 618 days ago
Meili search is also a great option.

https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/resources/comparison_...

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Meilisearch is great when it works, but when it breaks it's a total nightmare. I've hit multiple bugs that destroyed my search index, I've hit multiple undocumented limits, ... that all required rebuilding my index from scratch and doing a lot of work to find what was actually going on to report it. It doesn't help that some of the errors it gives are incredibly non-specific and make it quite difficult to find what's actually breaking it.

All of that said, I still use it because it has sucked less than the other search engines to run.

Can you give any sense as to the conditions under which it just breaks like that? This sounds quite concerning!
Does Meili support object store backends?
No, and no clustering / HA yet I believe. It is awesome though with the right use case. We've had it in prod for a few years now