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Self-Hosting Typesense: Blazing Fast Search

Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search engine. Sub-10ms responses, faceted search, and geo-search for your applications.

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What Is Typesense?


Typesense is a fast, open-source search engine built in C++. It's designed for instant search with typo tolerance and faceting.


Features


  • Typo tolerance and auto-correction
  • Faceted filtering and sorting
  • Geo-search (sort by distance)
  • Vector search (AI/semantic)
  • Multi-tenant collections
  • Synonyms and stop words
  • Curation (pin results)
  • Analytics

    • Typesense vs Meilisearch vs Elasticsearch


  • Typesense: Fastest, C++, smallest memory footprint
  • Meilisearch: Best developer experience, Rust
  • Elasticsearch: Most powerful, Java, resource-heavy

    • Deployment


    Deploy on TinyPod. Resources: 1 CPU, 256 MB RAM.


    Typesense delivers the fastest search responses of any self-hosted engine.