I spent some time trying to make search behavior visible in one small Quarkus app.

Full-text is good at exact terms. Vector search helps when user language and catalog language drift apart. Hybrid is usually the one I’d trust first in a real product search.

This article walks through all three with Quarkus, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Hibernate Search, and local embeddings.

https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/full-text-vector-hybrid-search-quarkus-java

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