Noise: a JSON full text and ad-hoc query engine with example-based query syntax

Oh hello, it's by Damien Katz. Who did CouchDb, and yonks ago worked on the storage engine underneath Lotus Notes.

His blog post about Noise, [Notes on Building Noise][0], was posted to /r/rust, and I found it to be well-written and entertaining.

[0]: http://damienkatz.net/2017/05/23/notes-on-building-noise-a-j...

When it mentioned Node.js I prepared myself to get disappointed that it wasn't written in Erlang but instead I was delighted to find that it was written in Rust :)

Why would one use this instead of PostgreSQL with full text search / json?

This is embeddable (since it uses RocksDB). One might want to take advantage of these kinds of JSON search features in an application -- for desktop or mobile -- without spinning up Postgres in a separate process.

Of course, you could always embed the application in Postgres as an extension...

Great stuff. It reminds me of jq [0]. If only MongoDB would replace its query engine with this or at least add it as a second option...

[0] https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

I honestly like jq and JMESPath syntax better.

This looks really interesting