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I’ve been a bit obsessed with that post since it came out as well.

Would it be conceivable to replace Algolia in this way for static data sets (i.e. those that don’t need the write/update API)?

I tried it (FTS5 on sql.js-httpvfs) with a 600mb FTS table containing OSM data. It works but the queries are quite a bit slower and there is quite a large difference between browsers. Some queries that took 1s in chrome took 10s in FF although I'm not sure why yet.

I guess it would be quite slow because of the network latency.