[llIIllIIllIIl]

How is it different from Meilisearch[1]? I’m running search for my small multi tenant SaaS and self hosted Meilisearch gives me grief like any relatively new tech, so I’m shopping for new solutions.

1: https://www.meilisearch.com/

[J_Shelby_J]

Well, off the bat, this seems to be able to embedded directly into your rust project without the need for a standalone server.

[wiradikusuma]

Could you share more about your experience with Meilisearch?

[llIIllIIllIIl]

Tl;dr: 4/5 stars for hobbit software SaaS.

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Full version: I run it on a dedicated machine 2vcpu2gb on digital ocean. Every tenant has an index and i have like 30k searches per week across all tenants. Each tenant has from 1 to 150k documents in their index. Sentry catches MeilisearchTimeoutException couple times every day with the message that Meilisearch could not finish adding document to index. I don’t care too much about that because background worker is responsible for updating index, so that tasks gets rescheduled. I like to keep my sentry clean, so it’s more an inconvenience than the issue. Meilisearch setup is very straightforward, they provide client libraries for almost all languages (maybe even for esoteric and marginal, idk, i only need python), have pretty decent documentation covering the basics and don’t really require operations at my scale. I really liked the feature of issuing the limited access tokens to be able to set the pre condition. That’s how i limit the searches for particular user on the tenant to see only their data.