CEO
Sergey Nikolaev leads Manticore Search and writes extensively about search architecture, performance tuning, release updates, replication, backups, hybrid search, and vector search.
A practical guide to solving glued-vs-spaced search queries like xt850 vs xt 850, with clear explanations of bigram_delimiter, second_numeric, second_has_digit, and reproducible examples.
A practical guide to using bigram_index to accelerate phrase queries in Manticore Search, with clear explanations of all, first_freq, both_freq, and a reproducible manticore-load benchmark.
Manticore Search 25.0.0 brings a simpler bundle package, new auto-embedding controls, hybrid search, KNN prefiltering, S3-compatible backups, faster OPTIMIZE, and prepared statements.
Manticore Search now supports parallel RT disk chunk merging and N-way merges, reducing compaction time dramatically while keeping ingest throughput stable.
How DX1 runs Manticore Search on Azure VMs to power fast typeahead across 20M+ parts, with low-touch operations and straightforward scaling.
A practical comparison of Azure AI Search and Manticore Search for hybrid full-text + vector search, focusing on chunk-level document workloads, relevance tuning, operational patterns, and cost.
Define stopwords, exceptions, wordforms, and hitless words inline in CREATE TABLE (RT mode) to remove external files and simplify deployment and table definitions.
Manticore Search 17.5.1: maintenance release with bug fixes and minor improvements.
How Locally migrated from Elasticsearch to Manticore Search on Google Cloud, achieving 16× cost reduction while handling tens of thousands of queries per second across geo search, ecommerce, aggregations, and vector search.
Learn how to search Vietnamese text with Manticore Search. Discover automatic diacritics handling, basic configuration, and best practices for Vietnamese language search.