MeiliSearch vs Managed Elasticsearch: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Managed Elasticsearch? A fully managed Elasticsearch solution. It is a fully managed Elasticsearch solution built on your environment, whether it is in the cloud or on-prem, providing enhanced security, reduced latency, and reduced costs compared to externally hosted Elasticsearch. We provide reliable, secure data ingestion and search, analysis, and visualization in real-time, while you retain full authority over your data.

MeiliSearch and Managed Elasticsearch belong to "Search as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by MeiliSearch are:

• Search as-you-type experience (answers < 50ms)
• Full-text search
• Typo tolerant (understands typos and spelling mistakes)

On the other hand, Managed Elasticsearch provides the following key features:

• Routine Backups
• Support for ALL versions of Elasticsearch, including both Elasticsearch from Elastic and Open Distro for Elasticsearch from AWS
• High Availability and High Throughput

MeiliSearch is an open source tool with 6.39K GitHub stars and 182 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MeiliSearch's open source repository on GitHub.