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Searchify vs Typesense: What are the differences?
Developers describe Searchify as "Full-text Search-as-a-Service". Easily add custom full-text search, without the cost or complexity of managing search servers. On the other hand, Typesense is detailed as "Open-Source Alternative to Algolia". It is an open source, typo tolerant search engine that delivers fast and relevant results out-of-the-box. has been built from scratch to offer a delightful, out-of-the-box search experience. From instant search to autosuggest, to faceted search, it has got you covered.
Searchify and Typesense can be primarily classified as "Search as a Service" tools.
Some of the features offered by Searchify are:
- Powerful hosted search, with a simple API
- True real-time updates are immediately searchable
- Location-aware geo search - sort & filter by distance
On the other hand, Typesense provides the following key features:
- Handles typographical errors elegantly
- Simple to set-up and manage
- Easy to tailor your search results to perfection
Typesense is an open source tool with 2.11K GitHub stars and 43 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Typesense's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Searchify
- Works1
Pros of Typesense
- Free5
- Facet search4
- Easy to deploy4
- Out-of-the-box dev experience3
- Ultra fast3
- Search as you type3
- Typo handling3
- Open source3
- Near real-time search2
- Super easy to implement2
- InstantSearch integration2
- Modern search engine2
- Restful1
- Great documentation1
- SaaS option1