Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch vs PostgreSQL full-text search: when to choose which?

The question is about Elasticsearch .

Answer:
PostgreSQL full-text search is sufficient for moderate search requirements - basic keyword matching, faceted filtering, and datasets under 10 million rows where sub-100ms query latency is acceptable. Elasticsearch is the better choice when products require advanced relevance tuning, autocomplete, geo-search, multi-language analysis, or search across datasets exceeding tens of millions of documents where query performance at scale is critical.

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