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Based on our record, Typesense should be more popular than Extism. It has been mentioned 61 times since March 2021.
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A plug for yours truly! At Relevance AI, we’re building an Elasticsearch alternative that is very different to alternatives like Algolia and Typesense. Relevance AI search is an instant search API that understands...
Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences. It claims that it is an Easier-to-Use ElasticSearch Alternative & an Open Source Algolia Alternative.
Oh hey! I'm one of the co-founders of Typesense. Delighted to stumble on a mention of Typesense on Indiehackers. Long time lurker, first time poster :)
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In another set of benchmarks we measured keyword-only search relevance of Typesense, Meilisearch, Elasticsearch, and Amgix, on a number of BEIR datasets. Here is the summary of the nDCG@10 results for the tested datasets:. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
Index them with Typesense (a FOSS, lightning-fast, local-first Algolia alternative). - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
For anyone who's interested, two other popular contenders for replacing Elasticsearch[1] are Typesense (https://typesense.org/) and Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com/). [1] And also trying to replace Algolia, because both have... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Technically WASI 0.1, but I used it (via Extism[0]) to implement a simple login library[1] that works in Rust, Go, and Node. Would be trivial to add other lanugages supported by Extism. Overall I loved the dev experience. [0]:... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
I tinkered with https://extism.org and basically the use case is that they suggest, namely you can extend software in another programming language but without having to setup a container or VMs on the client. They "just" run the code in... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Check out https://extism.org, it is built for those kinds of use cases. However I think WASI and components could enhance it. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
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