TLDR
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Self-contained PHP 8.1+ full-text search library using trigram indexing and BM25+IDF scoring, requiring zero extensions or external services.
Key Takeaways
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Targets shared hosting and minimal-stack deployments (OVH, Infomaniak, o2switch); not a replacement for Elasticsearch or Meilisearch at scale.
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Uses a fixed-size ~810 KB trigram index (
trigrams.bin) with O(1) lookup; supports typo tolerance, field boosting, and AND/OR filters.
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BM25 scoring uses standard Lucene defaults (k1=1.5, b=0.75); scores normalized 0-100 and exposed per result for custom ranking.
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insertBulk() is ~2x faster than single inserts; on 10k docs at Linux shared hosting, median search latency is 3.2 ms, P99 is 22.9 ms.
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Index files are fully portable binary files; soft deletes via tombstones with
compact() for cleanup when fragmentation exceeds threshold.
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