Meilisearch is a fast, user-friendly search engine for indexing and querying documents. You send documents (products, posts, jobs) to Meilisearch, configure what fields are searchable and how they rank, then query via REST API. Meilisearch returns results in <100ms with built-in features: typo tolerance, prefix matching, filtering, faceting, and custom ranking. Unlike Elasticsearch (powerful but complex), Meilisearch prioritizes simplicity and speed. Unlike basic database full-text search, Meilisearch has advanced ranking and UX features out of the box.