ElasticSearch isn't that difficult and the new guide they published a few months ago walks you through getting it set up without going too in-depth [1]. As a beginner I had it running on a $5 digitalocean droplet within a couple hours and indexed way over "a couple thousand" documents before the end of the day.
But if your needs are really that simple, MySQL does support full-text search [2].
Yes, i've looked into ES before, and if my usecase would be anything more complicated i would definitely go for that route. However, it's still quite some work to setup, and they recommend at least 8GB of RAM for a working instance [1].
I didn't know MySQL had fulltext search as well. I'll look into that. Thanks.
I didn't know MySQL had fulltext search as well. I'll look into that. Thanks.
[1]: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/ha...