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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by acdha on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:36PM (#25812766)
> 2. solr/elastic search: 8 core and 16GB of RAM as a minimum requirement on a DEV machine, that's insane when sqlite can do basic full text search on the cheapest raspberry pi

You would need to be using the production server settings and traffic volume for this to be true. I run both - sometimes simultaneously - on a 2012 MacBook Air with 8GB and rarely even notice them running. Unless you’re hammering the system with expensive requests these less memory than Gmail in Chrome.

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by mickael-kerjean on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:38PM (#25828968)
That's the requirement for dev, prod is double that: https://www.google.com/search?q=elastic+search+hardware+requ...
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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by acdha on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:33PM (#25829326)
Those figures Google highlights are for a Palo Alto product which uses ElasticSearch. Speaking from experience, that is much higher than necessary - usually the 1GB default is more than enough for development use and even production for lighter usage. The general figure to care about is index size - if you’re indexing hundreds of GB in development you might have problems fitting it on a laptop but otherwise this is not excessive or unusual given the massive feature set.
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