Discussing Use of Typesense for Multiple Indexes
TLDR Steffen enquired about using typesense for multiple indexes & possible drawbacks. Kishore Nallan suggested using 1000 indices versus 20000 collections to reduce memory overhead & simplify schema updates.


Oct 18, 2022 (11 months ago)
Steffen
06:58 AMjust discovered typesense and I really like it, great work 🙏
Did somebody already use it for thousands of indexes? I have 20.000 independent search spaces and would model them as one index per search space. Does this make or is it better to do this with one index and filters (in terms of resources and query performance)? Did somebody already create that many indexes?
Thanks for your help and ideas 🙂
Kishore Nallan
07:02 AM
Steffen
07:04 AMSteffen
08:42 AMKishore Nallan
09:02 AMKishore Nallan
09:02 AMSteffen
09:02 AMKishore Nallan
09:03 AMSteffen
09:03 AM
Steffen
08:58 PMTried with meilisearch before, had a lot of issues. Batch upserting, etc. works like a charm without a lot of resource usage.
Only, changes in schema did create some issues but I’ll figure out how to do this in production 👍
Oct 19, 2022 (11 months ago)
Kishore Nallan
01:23 AMSteffen
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