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Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by alias_neo on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:20AM (#44070958)
Is something like Apache Solr (a search index) well suited for something like this?

I've deployed and used it at work for searching specific, well-specified bits of information, but I don't know how well it would work on large chunks of text like articles etc; I assume this is its real purpose and it should fit, but I'm guessing.

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by retinaros on Friday May 23, 2025 @06:01AM (#44071444)
Just pgsql is enough. Even a chache db or sqlite do full text search
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by alias_neo on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:40PM (#44074827)
I'm not familiar with the various search features of different databases.

Do they offer things like the phonetic search that Solr does?

With Solr you can search a noun for example even if you only know how to say it and not how to spell it.