Backend & APIs
Postgres Full-Text Search vs Elasticsearch vs Meilisearch: BM25 Benchmarked (2026)
I scored built-in tsvector, pg_search, pg_textsearch, Elasticsearch 9.5 and Meilisearch 1.55 on three BEIR datasets: ranking quality (nDCG@10), latency, index size, typos and how fast new rows become searchable.
