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		faitswulff on Jan 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hermes: An open-source document management system Full text search also provided by Algolia, so you’ll likely need an Algolia API key and account as well.

DaiPlusPlus on Jan 31, 2023 [–]

wat? ...what does Algolia do that Lucene can't?

Aeolun on Feb 1, 2023 | [–]

Be zero management? And multi region?

Algolia is shockingly fast in any part of the world. That would probably not be true for your single region Lucene cluster.

Also mildly irrelevant to a document management system, but meh.

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