ultrafastsearchengine.com
Web and SaaS
travel search engine
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ultrafastsearchengine.com
Travel search engine calculating results in single digit ms
ultrafastsearchengine.com#travel search engine#hotel availability#real-time pricing#in-memory search
How HN took it
0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.59.
Execution: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Very fast response times
From 2 comments
For a date in October in Paris it returned a single hotel option with a price of $ 20860361.04. For another city it also showed a single option, but priced at $0.00. That's not…
huhtenberg on HNNo results for Toronto. It was quick to return no results, though. Fast != Good.
deepspace on HN
Objections
Demo uses synthetic prices, producing unrealistic results like a single Paris hotel and $0 prices
From 3 comments
For a date in October in Paris it returned a single hotel option with a price of $ 20860361.04. For another city it also showed a single option, but priced at $0.00. That's not…
huhtenberg on HNI'm not sure what to make of your "real world hotel information" statement when your search engine clearly thinks there's just one hotel in all of Paris.
huhtenberg on HNThat's hardly based on "real world data" then because it's completely unrealistic.
huhtenberg on HN
Title says it searches travel results but it is a demo with fake data
From 2 comments
This appears to be a demo and not searching real data? If so, the title is a bit misleading. Also, what makes this interesting from a tech point of view? I presume conventional…
potamic on HNTitle should say "demo". In your replies here you say that you're using synthetic prices. Why not implement upper and lower bounds? It really ruins the demo.
gardenhedge on HN
Speed is meaningless without up-to-date data; metasearch is slow for real reasons
From 1 comment
I can make anything fast if I don't care about up-to-date prices. Sorry but meta search is slow for a reason. It takes a while to go from reservation systems to OTA inventory to…
ulfw on HN
No results for Toronto or other real cities
From 2 comments
No results for Toronto. It was quick to return no results, though. Fast != Good.
deepspace on HNThe synthetic data makes it really hard to understand what you've done here. Is it fast because of some revolutionary tech or is it just fast because it's broken and thinks Vegas…
solardev on HN
Requests
Use real booking feeds or realistic price bounds instead of synthetic data
From 2 comments
The synthetic data makes it really hard to understand what you've done here. Is it fast because of some revolutionary tech or is it just fast because it's broken and thinks Vegas…
solardev on HNTitle should say "demo". In your replies here you say that you're using synthetic prices. Why not implement upper and lower bounds? It really ruins the demo.
gardenhedge on HN
Support flight search
From 1 comment
Cool! Any plans to make this also work for flights?
chfritz on HN
Questions
Is the speed from real technical advances or from the small fake dataset?
From 2 comments
Hmm. Not sure about the point. It doesn't search the real data, right? (I checked). It happens to have a predefined set of data. So, how do we know if the speed comes from…
kunley on HNThe synthetic data makes it really hard to understand what you've done here. Is it fast because of some revolutionary tech or is it just fast because it's broken and thinks Vegas…
solardev on HN
Alternatives named
Apache Ignite and in-memory data grids for travel availability
From 1 comment
Seems related to your case study here: https://stratoflow.com/case_studies/highly-scalable-travel-search-engine-with-real-time-calculation-of-price-and-availability/ Basically,…
tyingq on HN
Coherence and Hazelcast
From 1 comment
> You may find a a bit more what's behind the demo... That only says "the engine is a Java-based proprietary solution which was about 20x faster than comparable implementations…
tyingq on HN