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Engineering notes on how Tachyon is built — relevance, storage, and honest benchmark results.

Benchmarking Tachyon against Typesense: the numbers, and their limits — August 22, 2026
Block-max WAND, explained — August 8, 2026
Typo-tolerant search with Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance — July 28, 2026
Why we shipped a search engine as a single binary — July 10, 2026

Benchmarking Tachyon against Typesense: the numbers, and their limits

A single, fully-disclosed run comparing Tachyon and Typesense 30.2 at 100K, 1M, and 5M documents — what it found, and exactly what it doesn't prove yet.