tobru 🇨🇭 🧑‍🚒Mar 15

I Ditched Elasticsearch for Meilisearch. Here's What Nobody Tells You

"Then I spent one afternoon replacing it with Meilisearch. My p99 search latency went from 180ms to 12ms. My infrastructure bill dropped to $14/month. My configuration went from 340 lines of YAML to about 30."

Link: https://www.anisafifi.com/en/blog/i-ditched-elasticsearch-for-meilisearch-heres-what-nobody-tells-you/

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I Ditched Elasticsearch for Meilisearch. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

For three years I ran Elasticsearch on a side project that had exactly 200,000 documents and about 800 daily active users. Three years. One cluster. Two nodes.

Anis Afifi
Show threadMacLemonMar 15
@tobru How do you deal with patching and updating #Meilisearch? Because that has been basically impossible.
Show threadtobru 🇨🇭 🧑‍🚒Mar 15
@MacLemon I can't answer that, you might want to ask the author of the article. What's the issue upgrading Meilisearch?
Show threadMacLemonMar 15

@tobru It‘s not possible by design. You have to reinstall, drop your index and redo the index. There is no file compatibility at all. Not even across minor patch updates. Docker containers cannot handle that process themselves.

That’s why I asked how people deal with this design problem.

If you’re not using Meilisearch, that is something to look out for.

Show threadtobru 🇨🇭 🧑‍🚒
@MacLemon This is very useful information! Thanks for sharing.
Mar 15 at 5:02pmWeb