Build Realtime SearchParisRB - May ’14

@sylvainutard - @algolia

• Search Engine as a Service

• Hosted USE (OVH), EU (OVH), ASIA (AWS)

• Focus "Database search" VS "Document Search"

• Small records

• Multiple attributes

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Algolia

• Full-text search

• Typo-tolerance

• Faceting

• Numerical Search

• Geo Search

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Standard Search Features

• Prefix Search

• Typo-tolerance (including prefix search)

• Multi-attributes search

• Combine popularity & text-relevance

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Specific Search Features

• JavaScript API client (CORS)

• <10 ms processing time

• Google Instant-search like UX

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Specific Search UX

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Rails Integration

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Rails Integration

• ActiveRecord/MongoID compliant

• Auto-indexing (after_save, … callbacks)

• Per-environment indexes (dev, test, prod)