Articles tagged "elasticsearch"

Someone types "hummingbrid" instead of "hummingbird" and your search shows nothing. A typo-tolerant search engine is supposed to catch that. Here is what "catching it" actually requires, and where the easy version of it…

A facet is not a UI widget, it is a question answered twice per page: which results match, and how many would match for every other value on offer. Here is how Elasticsearch answers both in one pass, and the two ways…

Adding Elasticsearch or a similar engine to PrestaShop improves search, but if the index update is done poorly it can slow down checkout itself. Here is what actually happens when a customer changes a cart quantity.

With a few hundred products, PrestaShop search always feels fine. With tens of thousands, it starts to choke. Here is where the time goes, measured on a real 200,000-product catalog.