Algolia

Hosted search-as-a-service. Best when you need typo-tolerance, faceting, and sub-50ms search across millions of records.

Algolia is a hosted search service. Use when Convex full-text search doesn’t cover your needs (typo-tolerance, complex faceting, very high QPS).

Full walkthrough being written.

When to pick over Convex full-text

• You need typo-tolerance (“recieve” finds “receive”).
• Multi-faceted filtering UIs (Amazon-style).
• 1000+ searches per second.

Setup

ALGOLIA_APP_ID, ALGOLIA_ADMIN_API_KEY, ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY in vly secrets. Sync your Convex data to Algolia indexes via mutations + actions.

Related

Convex full-text search

Built-in alternative.

Meilisearch

Open-source alternative.

Search patterns

Architectural decisions.