Re:Search at Slack
by slantedview on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:23PM
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IMO this is like saying Hadoop or Spark or Kafka needs more competition outside the Java (JVM) world. Elasticsearch, at least, has a dead simple web API which makes it accessible from any platform, along with a slew of clients and integrations with other tools/platforms.
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This. ElasticSearch is one of only two pieces of Java (the other one being Flyway) that's so good we use it anyway. Not too bad anymore with Docker, it's a REST API after all.
In the end, ES really proved to be the least bad search server there's out there. The real crux isn't search, it's language. And as Lucene is made by technical linguists (a really rather special bunch) and Java is still universities' darling, it's unlikely their effort can be redone in a non-JVM language anytime soon.
Re:Search at Slack
by krakensden on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:52PM
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Have you looked at OkLog?