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Full-text search

Database På svenska → Updated: 2026-07-30

Search through free text with ranking, stemming, fuzzy matching — not just LIKE '%foo%'.

Postgres has it built in (tsvector, tsquery). Elasticsearch and Meilisearch are dedicated. Support for: tokenisation, language-specific stemming ("run", "running", "ran"), ranking (BM25). Complement to semantic search.

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