Fast, typo-tolerant search is the heartbeat of e-commerce catalogs, electronic component marketplaces, healthcare EHR portals, and enterprise knowledge bases. When PostgreSQL `ILIKE '%query%'` scans slow down to multi-second timeouts, you need a properly tuned Elasticsearch / OpenSearch cluster—or an optimized PostgreSQL `pg_trgm` + `pgvector` hybrid index.
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Production Search Engineering Case Studies on This Site
- Electronic Component & Part Number Search: Fuzzy Matching in Electronic Component Search: Tuning Elasticsearch for Complex Part Numbers
- Edge N-Grams & Case-Insensitive Lookups: Tuning Elasticsearch for Complex String Lookups: Edge N-Grams and Case-Insensitive Matching
- Real-Time Async PostgreSQL-to-Elasticsearch Sync: Building Real-Time Search Indexes: Syncing PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch Asynchronously
- Large Healthcare FHIR Search Scaling: Scaling the Medplum Search Index in Large Databases