Nodejs Search Engine

[Duy Nguyen]

Hi,

I'm working on my side project using FeathersJS(feathersjs.com) framework. As design I need to create full text Search service, can anyone share your experience which Search engine is good for you with pros and cons?

I'm using mongodb btw.

Thanks,
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[Charly Román]

You can use Elasticsearch with node. It's fast and well documented.

Charly Román
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http://croman.mx

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[Matt]

I sometimes wonder if people even try and google their problems these days...

Fifth entry on the first page for "mongodb full text search": https://www.compose.io/articles/full-text-search-with-mongodb-and-node-js/

[Duy Nguyen]

Seems I didn't explain clearly my need, so it caused some problems, my intention is that I want to know who had built any  search engine plugin to work with featherjs framework, so I can use it without much effort to setup.

As you can see here, featherjs supported some built-in modules allow you to interact with stripe or twilio easily, but not any module for search.

I'm working on POC, so built-in plugin is much more helpful than independent solution like ElasticSearch. Full text search by mongodb is second option also.

Anw, thanks guys for you help, and hope I explained clearly my need :)

Thanks,

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[Joshua Holbrook]

I don't know much about featherjs, but maybe it wouldn't be so bad to
write your own plugin?

Regarding implementation details: Definitely use an external server
like solr or elasticsearch, because writing something like lucene is
relatively hard.

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[Peter Rust]

If it's just a proof-of-concept, it may be simpler to use something embedded like sqlite's Full Text Search, than firing off requests to a different process or different server. Note that a SQLite approach won't scale (at least, not without a significant amount of forethought, planning, sharding, etc), but for a proof-of-concept it can be a good choice.

You can install node's sqlite module (https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3) by doing `npm install sqlite3`. By default it includes SQLite's FTS3 and FTS4. There's an example of how to use fts4 here: https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/blob/master/test/fts-content.test.js. And you'll want to read at least the beginning of the FTS3-4 docs: https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html.

Regarding feathers.js integration, you could look at the feathers knex or sequelize modules and see if their sqlite support is helpful. That said, those kinds of query-builders are usually focused on relational database access, so I don't know if they would be helpful with Full Text Search or if they would just get in the way. You may be better off just doing it manually. While you're at it, you could look at the mongo/mongoose modules to see if they expose mongo's Full Text Search capabilities.

-- peter