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Date Published
Author
Victor
Word count
2279
Language
English
Hacker News points
338

Summary

Postgres Full Text Search (FTS) offers robust features with decent performance, providing a great chance for Pareto improvement at low complexity cost. FTS can be compared to other search engines like SQLite FTS, TypeSense, MeiliSearch, and OpenSearch. A benchmarking test using Postgres FTS showed promising results, with the database performing close to other solutions in terms of query speed, even without extensive tuning. The test highlighted that while each engine has its strengths, Postgres FTS is likely to be good enough for many use cases, especially when compared to more specialized systems, making it a "complexity-neutral" option.