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Re:ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log sto... by gravypod on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:32PM (#26323607)
I'm personally very fond of sonic [0] for full text search.

> Sonic can be used as a simple alternative to super-heavy and full-featured search backends such as Elasticsearch in some use-cases. It is capable of normalizing natural language search queries, auto-completing a search query and providing the most relevant results for a query....

> When reviewing Elasticsearch (ELS) and others, we found those were full-featured heavyweight systems that did not scale well with Crisp's freemium-based cost structure.

> At the end, we decided to build our own search backend, designed to be simple and lightweight on resources

[0] - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

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Re:ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log sto... by moralestapia on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @09:45PM (#26324087)
>It is used to index half a billion objects on a $5/mth 1-vCPU SSD cloud server (as of 2019).

Damn. Thank you! This looks very nice!

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