# elasticsearch

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/elasticsearch
- Date: 2023-04-30
- Tags: elasticsearch

See [typesense](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/typesense) as C++ implemented alternative to elasticsearch and algolia (and some claims of it being a candidate for use as [vector-databases](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/vector-databases))

Story about HorizonDB -- [How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB](https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust). I don't think the product is [Open Source](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/open-source), but it is interesting to see all the different libraries they used: tantivy, fasttext, [rust](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/rust), apache-spark, LightGBM, `fst`,  RocksDB ..

[Elasticsearch Was Never a Database](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database) or "Elasticsearch: Search Index, Not System of Record" by [paradedb](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/paradedb) devs.