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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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TypeSense is much better. It's Algolia's open source competitor.

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Say more? Their docs look pretty compelling but what makes them better in your opinion?

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.

You've used it recently? Any experience hooking Postgres up to it?