Recommendations for Poor Man's Elastisearch on AWS?
I am fiddling with a couple of toy examples while learning serverless/react/dynamodb/s3, etc. and would like to find a quick, ultra-cheap "plug-in" solution, i.e. docker containers(?). I have seen a few things mentioned while searching but thought wisdom of group is better. Thanks all.
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If you don't want to use another Saas product, these are really good.
https://github.com/typesense/typesense
https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch
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 :)
Let me know if I can answer any questions.
I'd second these two. I've been following them for quite some time. I even did an extensive research on which one I'd use, and I ended up with Typesense. I don't remember the specific reasoning though. Both seem quite good. MeiliSearch is written in Rust, which makes it more "hipsterish" ;)
+1 for the hype to Rust. LOL.
Even I recommend typesense. I can tell for sure that it's written with optimization in mind.
These 2 offer es with free tier:
Bonsai.io offers 1gb storage and 1gb ram.
Searchly.com offers 2 indices and 20mb storage
I use Algolia, which has a generous- enough free plan, and works very well. Try that out!
What’s your goal? Are you trying to learn elastisearch or are you looking for anything that can provide search?
AWS has a free tier for elastisearch you can use. Or you could try algolia on it’s free tier. This is the search service used by indie hackers.
I want good search functionality on relatively low volume sites. I used ES last year for a hosted app on AWS last year and got hit with a decent sized bill. I will need to look into the free tier for AWS as many are complaining ES isn't included. Thanks!