Sphinx alternative

Hello! I have not installed this yet, I have some questions. About sphinx; this is rather old version and support is somewhat random for it. Have you considered Sphinx alternative, like ElasticSearch etc.?

Well, hosted version of Sharetribe Go still uses own proprietary search engine “Zappy” (implementation details were never disclosed, afaik) and maybe for Sharetribe Flex backend they use another version based on ElasticSearch (just guessing based on their public github repos).

You could develop own search adapter to use ElasticSearch, but being Java-based solution it would be quite hungry for RAM and CPU even in minimal config, compared to lightweight sphinx searchd (I’ve seen complains in this forum that people had to be upgrade their servers just to handle well node.js for asset compilation :slight_smile: )

So for smaller marketplaces that usually try to minimize hosting costs, elastic would add another level of configuration and maintenance complexity, though AWS, for example, gives reasonable pricing service.

Thanks! For small projects it does sound reasonable.

Still one question: is the 3.0 version tested with Sharetribe? I think there is major changes compared to version 2.

Guys, we need Elastic Search whatever it takes. We could use a hosted version of it. And about server cost, an 2gb ram instance cost only 2.5 euros/month at places like Hetzner cloud, so that is no longer the problem.