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mcintyre1994

That's for full text search? This sounds really cool! Excuse the not-very-sophisticated question because I'm not really familiar with the data structures a database typically uses, how do your index sizes compare to a typical sql database or similar indexed similarly for the same sort of queries?

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Index sizes are pretty similar (consider the same).

Having the index end-to-end encrypted imposes some limitations though. You have to do several requests when you want to do one query which is obviously slower. Though, still practical.

And since the CPU logic happens on the client, in some cases (many simultaneous clients) the performance can be actually better.

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