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TiGz
TiGz

Reputation: 924

How does Trello Full Text Search work?

AFAIK Trello uses MongoDB for persisted data. MongoDB does not support full text search.

And yet Trello's full text search is both comprehensive and very fast.

How is that? And how does it handle words/phrases that have been marked down?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 480

Answers (1)

Daniel LeCheminant
Daniel LeCheminant

Reputation: 51081

While Trello's database has millions of documents in it, the actual set of information that a given user cares about (or even has permission to read) is actually quite small.

Because of this, Trello is able to use a relatively naive search mechanism (e.g. using regular expressions and $where clauses) and still return results very quickly.

Disclosure: I wrote the search code for Trello.com

Upvotes: 2

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