I have been developing apps that use Firestore as a primary data store and Typesense for full-text search. Some collections are completely duplicated and synced between the databases.
Is there a reason why I should not use Typesense as the SOLE data collection and avoid keeping a collection of the data in Firestore?
What are the downsides of using a search engine as a primary datastore? Expense? Scalability?
Is there a reason why I should not use Typesense as the SOLE data collection and avoid keeping a collection of the data in Firestore?
Security, scalability, offline data persistence, and interoperability with all the other Firebase products. Besides that, I think that the following resource might also help:
That depend of your business and your process to input datas in your system.
If you need a specific backend, firebase cloud-function coupled with algolia, is a good option. with npm algoliasearch
As database with firebase no cost, (only read and write does),so is not a big deal to keep data in Firebase and perform search engine and filters UI with algolia
