Manticore is seldom mentioned around here but it seems to be a really good alternative [1]. The fact that is the search engine Craigslist uses gives them a lot of credibility.

This may be a bit silly, but I wonder if the design of their blog and website makes them look a bit "old fashioned" or something.

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1: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el...

Funny you mentioned because I also get that vibe from the Manticore website. We do judge books by their covers afterall.

Manticore is primarily oriented towards the MySQL world

It uses the MySQL protocol and has some extra features for MySQL users like the Federated engine [1], so it should definitely be nice for MySQL users. But it also has an HTTP API [2] so sending data to manticore should be no different than sending it to Elastic, Meili or whatnot.

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1: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Extensions/FEDERATED

2: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Connecting_to_the_server/...

Currently using meilisearch, the DX is a lot better than Elastic Search. Yeah I'm sure you can get better tuned results with ES but for simple full text search + facets you're setup and running a lot faster. Also request format tends to be stable between versions.

My main gripe is how slow to display their API documentation is. I don't know how they managed to make a text only website take 3 or 4 seconds per link.

I hate how slow the docs have become. Fwiw, we're working on fixing it :p

> My main gripe is how slow to display their API documentation is. I don't know how they managed to make a text only website take 3 or 4 seconds per link.

Fortunately, the Meilisearch documentation website is no longer the slowest website of all times! https://x.com/striftcodes/status/1823637020121440305?s=46&t=...

Yeah, but those are separate things to learn and operate.

Typesense has been a godsend; amazing piece of tech and on top of that fairly easy to operate even in HA mode; if you can fit your dataset in memory I really recommend giving it a try