quickwit-oss / quickwit-oss/quickwit

Support for percolate search?

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Rust
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Quickwit is good for basic search, but sometimes you need to use reverse search, when user pushes not query but the documents, when queries is stored, like a documents. That's called percolate or reverse full text search.

Describe the solution you'd like
Implement percolate search in Quickwit

Describe alternatives you've considered
Do nothing about it

Additional context
Quite useful feature for common purpose full text search engines, such as notifications for users.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by mapping Quickwit's existing full-text search architecture and how stored queries could be represented; done means implementing reverse search for pushed documents and verifying notification-style matching with tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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