<story><title>Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathcd</author><text>Neat! I hope this goes far, it&amp;#x27;d be great to have a faster&amp;#x2F;lighterweight Elastcsearch.&lt;p&gt;Something similar I&amp;#x27;m really hoping to see is Tantivy in a Postgres extension, so I can stop playing the game of trying to keep my search engine and database in sync. Seeing pg-extend-rs (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bluejekyll&amp;#x2F;pg-extend-rs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bluejekyll&amp;#x2F;pg-extend-rs&lt;/a&gt;) on HN the other week got me thinking about it again. Does anyone know whether this is feasible or if anyone is working on something in this vein?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>profquail</author><text>Out of curiosity —- have you looked at using Postgresql’s full text search functionality to implement your search engine (e.g. [1])? If so, what do you get out of the combination of Postgres + Elasticsearch that you chose it over just the Postgres full text search?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rachbelaid.com&amp;#x2F;postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rachbelaid.com&amp;#x2F;postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathcd</author><text>Neat! I hope this goes far, it&amp;#x27;d be great to have a faster&amp;#x2F;lighterweight Elastcsearch.&lt;p&gt;Something similar I&amp;#x27;m really hoping to see is Tantivy in a Postgres extension, so I can stop playing the game of trying to keep my search engine and database in sync. Seeing pg-extend-rs (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bluejekyll&amp;#x2F;pg-extend-rs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bluejekyll&amp;#x2F;pg-extend-rs&lt;/a&gt;) on HN the other week got me thinking about it again. Does anyone know whether this is feasible or if anyone is working on something in this vein?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lykr0n</author><text>ZoomDB (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zombodb&amp;#x2F;zombodb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zombodb&amp;#x2F;zombodb&lt;/a&gt;) offers something like this.</text></comment>