It is indeed mostly designed for bulk indexing and static search. But it is not a strict limitation, frequent small inserts and updates are performant too. Deleting can be a bit awkward, you can only delete every document with a given term in a field, but if you use it on a unique id field it's just like a normal delete.
Tantivy is a low-level library to build your own search engine (Quickwit), like Lucene, it's not a search engine in itself. Kind of like how DBs are built on top of Key-Value Stores. But you can definitely build a CRUD abstraction on top of it.
Tantivy is a low-level library to build your own search engine (Quickwit), like Lucene, it's not a search engine in itself. Kind of like how DBs are built on top of Key-Value Stores. But you can definitely build a CRUD abstraction on top of it.