BulkSearch

Lightweight and read-write optimized full text search library.

When it comes to the overall speed, BulkSearch outperforms every searching library out there and also provides flexible search capabilities like multi-word matching, phonetic transformations or partial matching. It is essentially based on how a HDD manages files in a filesystem. Adding, updating or removing items are as fast as searching for them, but also consumes some additional memory. When your index doesn't need to be updated frequently then FlexSearch may be a better choice. BulkSearch also provides you a asynchronous processing model to perform queries in the background.

Benchmark:

Comparison: https://jsperf.com/compare-search-libraries
Detailed: https://jsperf.com/bulksearch

Supported Platforms:

Browser
Node.js

Supported Module Definitions:

AMD (RequireJS)
CommonJS (Node.js)
Closure (Xone)
Global (Browser)

All Features:

Partial Words
Multiple Words
Flexible Word Order
Phonetic Search
Limit Results
Pagination
Caching
Asynchronous Mode
Custom Matchers
Custom Encoders

Installation

HTML / Javascript

<html>
<head>
    <script src="js/bulksearch.min.js"></script>
</head>
...

Note: Use bulksearch.min.js for production and bulksearch.js for development.

Use latest from CDN:

<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/nextapps-de/bulksearch/master/bulksearch.min.js"></script>

Node.js

npm install bulksearch

In your code include as follows:

var BulkSearch = require("bulksearch");

Or pass in options when requiring:

var index = require("bulksearch").create({/* options */});

AMD

var BulkSearch = require("./bulksearch.js");

Compare BulkSearch vs. FlexSearch

Description	BulkSearch	FlexSearch
Access	Read-Write optimized index	Read-Memory optimized index
Memory	Large (~ 90 bytes per word)	Tiny (~ 2 bytes per word)
Usage	Limited content Index updates continously	Fastest possible search Rare updates on index Low memory capabilities
Limit Results	Yes	Yes
Pagination	Yes	No

API Overview

Global methods:

BulkSearch.create(<options>)
BulkSearch.addMatcher({KEY: VALUE})
BulkSearch.register(name, encoder)
BulkSearch.encode(name, string)

Index methods:

Index.add(id, string)
Index.search(string, <limit>, <callback>)
Index.search(string, <page>, <callback>)
Index.search(options, <callback>)
Index.update(id, string)
Index.remove(id)
Index.reset()
Index.destroy()
Index.init(<options>)
Index.optimize()
Index.info()
Index.addMatcher({KEY: VALUE})
Index.encode(string)

Usage

Create Index

BulkSearch.create(<options>)

var index = new BulkSearch();

alternatively you can also use:

var index = BulkSearch.create();

Create index with custom options

var index = new BulkSearch({

    // default values:

    type: "integer",
    encode: "icase",
    boolean: "and",
    size: 4000,
    multi: false,
    strict: false,
    ordered: false,
    paging: false,
    async: false,
    cache: false
});

Add items to an index

Index.add(id, string)

index.add(10025, "John Doe");

Search items

Index.search(string|options, <limit|page>, <callback>)

index.search("John");

Limit the result:

index.search("John", 10);

Perform queries asynchronously:

index.search("John", function(result){
    
    // array of results
});

Pass parameter as an object:

index.search({

    query: "John", 
    page: '1:1234',
    limit: 10,
    callback: function(result){
        
        // async
    }
});

Update item from an index

Index.update(id, string)

index.update(10025, "Road Runner");

Remove item from an index

Index.remove(id)

index.remove(10025);

Reset index

index.reset();

Destroy index

index.destroy();

Re-Initialize index

Index.init(<options>)

Note: Re-initialization will also destroy the old index!

Initialize (with same options):

index.init();

Initialize with new options:

index.init({

    /* options */
});

Add custom matcher

BulkSearch.addMatcher({REGEX: REPLACE})

Add global matchers for all instances:

BulkSearch.addMatcher({

    'ä': 'a', // replaces all 'ä' to 'a'
    'ó': 'o',
    '[ûúù]': 'u' // replaces multiple
});

Add private matchers for a specific instance:

index.addMatcher({

    'ä': 'a', // replaces all 'ä' to 'a'
    'ó': 'o',
    '[ûúù]': 'u' // replaces multiple
});

Add custom encoder

Define a private custom encoder during creation/initialization:

var index = new BulkSearch({

    encode: function(str){
    
        // do something with str ...
        
        return str;
    }
});

Register a global encoder to be used by all instances

BulkSearch.register(name, encoder)

BulkSearch.register('whitespace', function(str){

    return str.replace(/ /g, '');
});

Use global encoders:

var index = new BulkSearch({ encode: 'whitespace' });

Call encoders directly

Private encoder:

var encoded = index.encode("sample text");

Global encoder:

var encoded = BulkSearch.encode("whitespace", "sample text");

Mixup/Extend multiple encoders

BulkSearch.register('mixed', function(str){
  
    str = this.encode("icase", str);  // built-in
    str = this.encode("whitespace", str); // custom
    
    return str;
});

BulkSearch.register('extended', function(str){
  
    str = this.encode("custom", str);
    
    // do something additional with str ...

    return str;
});

Get info

index.info();

Returns information about the index, e.g.:

{
    "bytes": 103600,
    "chunks": 9,
    "fragmentation": 0,
    "fragments": 0,
    "id": 0,
    "length": 7798,
    "matchers": 0,
    "size": 10000,
    "status": false
}

Note: When the fragmentation value is about 50% or higher, your should consider using cleanup().

Optimize / Cleanup index

Optimize an index will free all fragmented memory and also rebuilds the index by scoring.

index.optimize();

Pagination

Note: Pagination can simply reduce query time by a factor of 100.

Enable pagination on initialization:

var index = BulkSearch.create({ paging: true });

Perform query and pass a limit (items per page):

index.search("John", 10);

The response will include a pagination object like this:

{
    "current": "0:0",
    "prev": null,
    "next": "1:16322",
    "results": []
}

Explanation:

"current"	Includes the pointer to the current page.
"prev"	Includes the pointer to the previous page. Whenever this field has the value null there are no more previous pages available.
"next"	Includes the pointer to the next page. Whenever this field has the value null there are no more pages left.
"results"	Array of matched items.

Perform query and pass a pointer to a specific page:

index.search("John", {
    
    page: "1:16322", // pointer
    limit: 10
});

Options

Option	Values	Description
type	"byte" "short" "integer" "float" "string"	The data type of passed IDs has to be specified on creation. It is recommended to uses to most lowest possible data range here, e.g. use "short" when IDs are not higher than 65,535.
encode	false "icase" "simple" "advanced" "extra" function(string):string	The encoding type. Choose one of the built-ins or pass a custom encoding function.
boolean	"and" "or"	The applied boolean model when comparing multiple words. Note: When using "or" the first word is also compared with "and". Example: a query with 3 words, results has either: matched word 1 & 2 and matched word 1 & 3.
size	2500 - 10000	The size of chunks. It depends on content length which value fits best. Short content length (e.g. User names) are faster with a chunk size of 2,500. Bigger text runs faster with a chunk size of 10,000. Note: It is recommended to use a minimum chunk size of the maximum content length which has to be indexed to prevent fragmentation.
multi	true false	Enable multi word processing.
ordered	true false	Multiple words has to be the same order as the matched entry.
strict	true false	Matches exactly needs to be started with the query.
cache	true false	Enable caching.

Phonetic Encoding

Encoder	Description	False Positives	Compression Level
false	Turn off encoding	no	no
"icase"	Case in-sensitive encoding	no	no
"simple"	Phonetic normalizations	no	~ 3%
"advanced"	Phonetic normalizations + Literal transformations	no	~ 25%
"extra"	Phonetic normalizations + Soundex transformations	yes	~ 50%

Compare Phonetic Search

Reference String: "Björn-Phillipp Mayer"

Query	ElasticSearch	BulkSearch (iCase)	BulkSearch (Simple)	BulkSearch (Adv.)	BulkSearch (Extra)
björn	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
björ	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
bjorn	no	no	yes	yes	yes
bjoern	no	no	no	yes	yes
philipp	no	no	no	yes	yes
filip	no	no	no	yes	yes
björnphillip	no	no	yes	yes	yes
meier	no	no	no	yes	yes
björn meier	no	no	no	yes	yes
meier fhilip	no	no	no	yes	yes
byorn mair	no	no	no	no	yes
(false positives)	yes	no	no	no	yes

Memory Usage

Note: The data type of passed IDs has to be specified on creation. It is recommended to uses the most lowest possible data range here, e.g. use "short" when IDs are not higher than 65,535.

ID Type	Range of Values	Memory usage of every ~ 100,000 indexed words
Byte	0 - 255	4.5 Mb
Short	0 - 65,535	5.3 Mb
Integer	0 - 4,294,967,295	6.8 Mb
Float	0 - * (16 digits)	10 Mb
String	* (unlimited)	28.2 Mb

Author BulkSearch: Thomas Wilkerling
License: Apache 2.0 License

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