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Bonsai vs MeiliSearch: What are the differences?
Bonsai: Fast, reliable full-text search, managed for you by experts. Your customers expect fast, near-magical results from your search. Help them find what they’re looking for with Bonsai Elasticsearch. Our fully managed Elasticsearch solution makes it easy to create, manage, and test your app's search; MeiliSearch: *Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API *. It is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use, and deploy search engine. The search and indexation are fully customizable and handles features like typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms.
Bonsai and MeiliSearch belong to "Search as a Service" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Bonsai are:
- The Open Source Advantage- Our service is proudly powered by Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, the open source industry standard for fast full-text search.
- Results in Real-Time- Search your site's activity as it happens, with Elasticsearch's cutting-edge real-time updates
- High Availability by default
On the other hand, MeiliSearch provides the following key features:
- Search as-you-type experience (answers < 50ms)
- Full-text search
- Typo tolerant (understands typos and spelling mistakes)
MeiliSearch is an open source tool with 1.29K GitHub stars and 42 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MeiliSearch's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Bonsai
- Free tier2
Pros of MeiliSearch
- Saas option1
- Restfull1
- Open source1
- Typo handling1
- Search as you type1
- Useful defaults1
- Easy to deploy1
- Facet search1
- Great long tail search results1
- Fast responses to online chat1