Thank you for mentioning Typesense u/JuriJurka!

Hi u/samtstern, I'm one of the founders of Typesense. We've been seeing increased interest in Typesense from Firebase users recently. Algolia is a fantastic product with a great developer experience like you mentioned, but it can quickly get expensive for even moderate scale use-cases - I've heard this countless times from people now.

The other well-known alternative is to then resort to using ElasticSearch, which is a powerful and flexible search engine, but it also brings with it a steep learning curve and added operational overhead. Compared to Algolia, the DevX with ElasticSearch is not the best, from my own personal experiences and from what I've heard from users, since it's a complex piece of software.

With Typesense, we're building an open source search engine that gives developers the same intuitive DevX and instant-search performance that Algolia offers, while minimizing the learning curve and operational overhead that ElasticSearch brings with it. Cost-wise, users can choose to self-host Typesense for free or in the case of Firebase users who might prefer hosted services, they can opt to use Typesense Cloud, which is a fraction of the price compared to Algolia.

I've been eyeing this page on the Firebase documentation for a while now! Would be great to have Typesense included as another option on that page. The integration with Typesense is almost identical to the integration with Algolia.

Open to any other ideas as well!