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by Kerollmops 435 days ago
> I'm still looking for a systematic approach to make a hybrid search (combined full-text with embedding vectors).

You know that Meilisearch is the way to go, right? Tantivy, even though, I love the product, doesn't support vector search. Its Hybrid search is stunningly good. You can try it on our demo [1].

[1]: https://wheretowatch.meilisearch.com/
1 comments
oulipo 434 days ago
why couldn't it be possible to just embed Meilisearch/Tantivy/Quickwit inside Postgres as a plugin to simplify the setup?
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Kerollmops 434 days ago
> [..] to simplify the setup?

It would be simpler to keep Meilisearch and its key-value store out of Postgres' WAL and stuff and better propose a good SQL exporter (in the plan).

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oulipo 434 days ago
Perhaps on a technical level, but for a dev, if I just need to install Postgres and some plugins and, boom, I have a full searchable index, it's even easier
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