Thing is, there's heavy demand for something more performant than Elasticsearch, so eventually the market will provide.
Meanwhile, Redis Enterprise is trying to grab some 'share with RediSearch, which has some severe caveats IMO that make it not a great fit for most.
https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
That said - it's effectively Lucene rewritten in rust, so the main win is some performance gains. Lucene has spent a ton of time getting the details right, and it's unlikely we'll see an order of magnitude of innovation in that particular space. At the higher level for querying / query understanding it feels like there's still more technological room to grow vs the lower level details.
It is not exactly a port but yeah. tantivy is strongly inspired from Lucene.
> Lucene has spent a ton of time getting the details right, and it's unlikely we'll see an order of magnitude of innovation in that particular space.
Have you checked out the perf gain in Lucene 8.0 ? Block-WAND proved you wrong.
Tantivy is a cool project, but I have to say the part I love most about it is your blog posts on it. They're a great introduction for people who are unfamiliar with the underlying tech of search engines.
Thanks a lot! I am not a native speaker, and I often feel very bad at conveying engineering concepts. The positive feedback is actually very helpful :)
Disclaimer: I’m a previous employee but have no economic interests in this as it’s not a publicly traded company.