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The Good, the Bad, and the Leaky: jemalloc, bumpalo, and mimalloc in Meilisearch

The good, the bad, and the leaky: jemalloc, bumpalo, and mimalloc in Meilisearch

Published by Clément Renault on 29 Mar 2026

Patching LMDB: how we made Meilisearch’s vector store 3× faster

We patched LMDB to support nested read transactions on uncommitted writes - eliminating full database scans and making Meilisearch's vector store 3× faster

Published by Clément Renault on 17 Mar 2026

Why traditional hybrid search falls short (and how we fixed it)

Meilisearch's innovative scoring system revolutionizes hybrid search by properly combining full-text and semantic search, delivering more relevant results than traditional rank fusion methods.

Published by Louis Dureuil on 18 Jun 2025

Introducing Meilisearch's next-generation indexer: 4x faster updates, 30% less storage

Indexer edition 2024 revolutionizes search performance with parallel processing, optimized RAM usage, and enhanced observability.

Published by Louis Dureuil on 25 Feb 2025

Meilisearch indexes embeddings 7x faster with binary quantization

By implementing binary quantization with the vector store Arroy, significant reductions in disk space usage and indexing time for large embeddings have been achieved while maintaining search relevance and efficiency.

Published by Tamo on 28 Nov 2024

Meilisearch is too slow

In this blog post, we explore the enhancements needed for Meilisearch's document indexer. We'll discuss the current indexing engine, its drawbacks, and new techniques to optimize performance.

Published by Clément Renault on 19 Aug 2024

How Meilisearch updates a database with millions of vector embeddings in under a minute

How we implemented incremental indexing in our vector store.

Published by Tamo on 03 Apr 2024

Meilisearch expands search power with Arroy's Filtered Disk ANN

How we implemented Meilisearch filtering capabilities with Arroy's Filtered Disk ANN

Published by Clément Renault on 26 Dec 2023

Multithreading and Memory-Mapping: Refining ANN performance with Arroy

Overcoming the challenges to enhance ANN performance with Rust.

Published by Clément Renault on 20 Dec 2023

Spotify-Inspired: Elevating Meilisearch with Hybrid Search and Rust

How we created Arroy, a Rust library building upon the foundations of Spotify's Annoy.

Published by Clément Renault on 13 Dec 2023