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There is also Blast (golang), built on top of Bleve.

- https://github.com/mosuka/blast - http://blevesearch.com/

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Wow I actually forgot about Bleve!

I watched a talk on the new indexing engine a while back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjG2Y01i3Kk

Can we attribute some of this renewed zeal in the search space to the creation of more approachable systems languages (i.e. Golang and Rust)? Maybe I just haven't been watching the search space but I feel it wasn't always this full of new projects putting up good numbers.

Yeah but it's golang, so it's kinda like java, so I see no pros in it TBH.

golang isn't even close to using the same amount of memory as java, so at least there's that.

There are a lot of differences between Golang and Java. As much as I dislike writing Java when I have a choice, the JVM (with Java or whatever else on top) is a very capble tool... Could you explain what you mean by there being "no pros"?

Are you maybe trying to get at the difficulty of tuning the JVM?

rust/c++/c has no gc and better performance/efficiency compared to java/golang. so you get excited for a library/db in those languages

golang is kinda a java alternative. a db/search-engine in java/golang kinda sucks (it will under pressure)

While I definitely agree with you on the broad strokes of the differences between rust/c++/c and java/golang (representing languages without runtimes and those with them respectively), I'd say that golang is a bit more than a java alternative if we consider more than whether a runtime is included or not.

Of course, if the only consideration is whether a runtime is there or not, golang is identical to java but also identical to common lisp or maybe even interpreted languages like python.

I do want to point out that it's possible to write horribly buggy code in c++/c (less so in rust :), which can tank performance/efficiency when compared to a java/golang program. All things considered though, the ceiling on performance and efficiency is of course higher in manual memory management land.

Thanks for clarifying what you meant!

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