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Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search

by qdequelen on 1/27/22, 10:54 AM with 11 comments

• by freewizard on 1/27/22, 10:25 PM

  While I really liked the neat API and it's easy to use, the index performance and ram/disk size is really disappointing in a use case I oversee.

  Typesense in my opinion is much better on performance (ymmv but in my case it's ~15% disk/ram, 5% of index time comparing to Meili). However, it's a bit behind on easy to use: the auto schema api has some limitation, also lack of official arm64 build (maybe it's a c++ vs rust toolchain thing, it takes quite some time to compile by oneself, with many c++ libs used from different vendors like google/baidu/etc, and some lib even requires SSE)

  It's fun to see both come with comparison charts [1] [2], I dunno who started this but competition is good for the industry (except I'm mildly concerned GitHub stars are used in PR like this), and I hope both get better over time.

  [1] https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/compa...

  [2] https://typesense.org/docs/overview/comparison-with-alternat...

• by kevinsf90 on 1/27/22, 6:02 PM

  Congrats! Love seeing an alternative to Elastic/Lucene, esp. in Rust! Just wondering, for those using Elasticsearch for log storage/querying, could Meilisearch potentially fulfill this use-case also? And are you aiming to be a more "performant" and efficient alternative to Elasticsearch?

• by daibo on 1/27/22, 4:17 PM

  Did the elasticsearch vs aws fiasco affect your ability to raise, considering it highlighted the risks of the opencore business model?

• by nojs on 1/27/22, 3:05 PM

  Congrats! The space of elastic/lucene/algolia replacements seems to be growing, excited to see what you guys do in the next few years.

• by shuky on 1/27/22, 1:35 PM

  good job everyone!!! excited to see where Meilisearch is going