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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
Who's got opinions on search and wants to share? I'm currently evaluating everything from postgres extensions to 3p services like Algolia and AI solutions like Vertex AI and mixtures like pgvector, pgvectorscale, pgai
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Alex Loukissas 🍉
@futureartist
Algolia is great
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Mikko
@moo
TypeSense is much better. It's Algolia's open source competitor.
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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
Say more? Their docs look pretty compelling but what makes them better in your opinion?
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Mikko
@moo
- Price - Customisability - Open source
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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
You've used it recently? Any experience hooking Postgres up to it?
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Mikko
@moo
It's a separate database. I am simply running a cron'ed job that mirrors data from PostgresSQL to TimescaleDB now and then. You can try it here: https://tradingstrategy.ai/search Building such search experience for such vast data with any other tool would be painful, but Typesense did it in few days.
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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
That's pretty incredible! Did you work with their hosted product or set it up yourself? Sorry for all the questions - this seems too good to be true 😅
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Mikko
@moo
First we used SaaS, then we migrated to self-hosted as our database grow. We currently have some 3.5TB in our PSQL: https://tradingstrategy.ai/trading-view
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