Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch
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HN comment orderHi everyone — I'm one of the maintainers of Manticore Search. Huge thanks to @klaussilveira for submitting this — we really appreciate the interest and the thoughtful discussion here. A few points that came up in the thread and are worth clarifying: - We do get compared to Elasticsearch a lot. While we support some of its APIs, Manticore isn't a drop-in replacement. We've focused on performance, simplicity, and keeping things open-source without vendor lock-in. Our own SQL-based query language…
Whenever I see quotes like “182x faster than MySQL! 29x faster than Elasticsearch!” as the intro to a project, I’m immediately sceptical of the quality of the entire project.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 261
- Total comments
- 126
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-13 | Manticore full-text search (Sphinx fork) | nathcd | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-07-28 | Manticore Search: Elasticsearch AlternativeFirst breakout | wener | 118 | 69 |
| 2025-07-23 | Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for ElasticsearchBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | klaussilveira | 141 | 57 |