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alfiedotwtf on Dec 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: FastMail's Email Search Architecture

From memory (sorry, it was a while back) we actually started with Elasticsearch, but it was way to heavy and looked for an alternative solution. Even with a single user it was consuming way too much memory.

robn_fastmail on Dec 1, 2014 [–]

Sorry Alfie, your memory fails. We started with Sphinx.

We use Elasticsearch elsewhere (ELK stack), but not for mail search.

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