Comment by arafalov

5 years ago

Amazing, especially - for me - that the FTS5 full-text search just works. Longer term, I am if it were possible to split the DB code into read and write parts and cross-compile only read part for delivery to the browser.

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rzzzt  5 years ago

If you are interested in full-text search on the client, Lunr is also an option: https://lunrjs.com/docs/index.html

  • tehbeard  5 years ago

    Lunr needs the full index on client though, right?

    Being able to use fts-5 without the penalty of having to pull down the whole index make it work much better at larger scales, even with the penalty of additional network requests.

    • formerly_proven  5 years ago

      This could be genuinely interesting for tools like e.g. sphinx-doc, which currently has a client-side search that does indeed ship the entire index to the client.

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  • joshuanapoli  5 years ago

    Time to create the index for lunr limits the size of the data-set that can be used. If you have a lot of tiny documents, then it is more practical to scan the documents directly, rather than using the lunr index.