MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by dijit on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:16PM (#22688992)

Elasticsearch is easier than mongo in some ways and harder in others.

I run a few 10TiB ES clusters (which, is not much to be fair) but infrequently find that I have to reindex or reshard the cluster because I can’t just add another node. There’s something to be said for understanding the index rotation too, and access patterns.

It’s easy to make an ES cluster, it’s difficult to maintain one, it’s nearly impossible to debug one.

- if you consider that “it’s slow” is what you have to debug.

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Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by kstrauser on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @07:22PM (#22689376)

That's approximately how large our clusters are. Fortunately, ours are read-only, so our admin story is:

- Hey, a node died! - Run Terraform to stand up a whole new cluster and restore it from a snapshot. - Update the app to point at the new cluster. - Run Terraform to delete the old cluster.

I'm pretty happy with this arrangement.

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Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by jniedrauer on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:51PM (#22689212)

> if you consider that “it’s slow” is what you have to debug.

This is exactly it. This is a problem you encounter with every database engine, but in most of them you can quickly find the bottleneck and fix it. With elasticsearch... it's a frustrating and expensive game of trial and error.

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Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by antpls on Friday March 27, 2020 @08:11AM (#22702207)

> I run a few 10TiB ES clusters

For information, what does "10TiB" refer to in this context?

Is it the size of what ES takes in RAM, or the size of ES' index, or is it the total size of the corpus that ES must index? Or corpus size + index ?

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Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by heipei on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:00AM (#22692632)

Would be interested to hear why you can't add another node in some cases.

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Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by dijit on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:16PM (#22698533)

If you have 5 shards on an index, adding a 6th node isn’t going to improve performance.

(Contrived example for the sake of illustrating the point)

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