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qdequelenon MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

We are working on multi filters and faceting. https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/424 https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/425

qdequelenon MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

I would like to clarify that by analytics we are only talking about 1 ping per day that sends a hash that allows us to uniquely identify a user. The privacy of the users is kept. It just serves us to know if our work is being used.

qdequelenon MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

Take a look at our comparison page: https://docs.meilisearch.com/resources/comparison_to_alterna...

qdequelenon MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

Hi, to answer your questions.

* 2 parts.

- Vertical scale: We use LMDB as a key-value store. This one uses the power of memory mapping. It made our search engine use mainly the disk and will do not need a machine that will have TB of RAM.

- Horizontal scale. We are working on sharding and replications (Raft). Development is progressing well, and the functionality should come out soon.

* Currently, it is not monitored at all. This feature is planned. https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/523

* We use a queue for updates. You can find here the complete guide https://docs.meilisearch.com/guides/advanced_guides/asynchro...

* As I said previously, we are working on HA with a raft consensus.

* We will add snapshots in no time (disk folder saved in s3). A little more time for backups (version agnostic, need indexing).

We are already working with Louis Vuitton on an application in production. The app is in production from 9 months, and there hasn't been a single problem.

qdequelenon MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

We are currently working on the sharding and the replication (Raft). Development is progressing well and the functionality should come out soon.

qdequelenon MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

Hi, many answers to these questions. But first, I'll put you on the link to the public roadmap. A lot of the stuff we're working on is in there. If you need/love a feature, please add a heart emoji on it. https://github.com/orgs/meilisearch/projects/2

- Currently, we only support single filters. The multiple filters option is coming soon. https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/425

- Custom ranking rules on the fly is something imaginable on our solution. We didn't do it yet because it complexifies the search query parameters. We are waiting for feedback like yours to implement this kind of feature.

- To return only the field you need, it's already possible during the search https://docs.meilisearch.com/guides/advanced_guides/search_p.... To restrict attributes to search in during the query. We had this feature on a previous version. But like the last answer, no one used it, and it complexifies the search query.