Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
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HN comment orderWhile I really like their lightweight, SQL-like protocol instead of Elasticsearch's fat JSON, I really think that this project could have much more impact if it could be a drop-in replacement for ES. Even if it offers only a fraction of the features offered by ES, that may be fair enough for at least half of the use-cases out there. Sonic could have really had a strong selling point: "Use an ES-alternative that works fine in most of the real-world…
Always nice to see more alternatives to Elasticsearch. That project could be so much better with some proper planning and focus. There's also Toshi: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi which is built on top of Tantivy: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy And for C++, there's Xapiland: https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand And for Go, there's Blast: https://github.com/mosuka/blast built on Bleve: https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-23 | Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in RustFirst breakout | louis-paul | 238 | 39 |
| 2021-08-10 | Sonic: Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend written in Rust | mjshashank | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-10-24 | Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backendBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | rcarmo | 575 | 155 |