typesense

Is there currently any way to search for partial matches in words? Eg. a product with code `157B2210` should be findable with query `B2210`, but currently that doesn't seem possible as only prefix queries are supported?

We've just had a couple of other customers ask for this feature. This requires suffix searching, which is not an easy problem to solve. It requires building a suffix tree, which is really complex and requires a high memory foot print or requires just doing a fast brute force search on the strings. It's a memory vs speed trade off.

How big is your dataset?

Around 300k records, using ~700MB of memory

Perhaps a possible brute force search could be enabled on a field by field basis? For example when searching through product codes, the strings are short and probably quickly searchable.

One workaround in the meantime is to split each character combination into an array field and search on that.

<@U02098Y1J3H> Mind creating a github issue for this, so we can track it?

<https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/393>