How to implement autocomplete on a massive dataset

Question

I\'m trying to implement something like Google suggest on a website I am building and am curious how to go about doing in on a very large dataset. Sure if you\'ve got 1000 items

Answer 1

I've built AutoCompleteAPI for this scenario exactly.

Sign up to get a private index, then, Upload your documents.

Example upload using curl on document "New York":

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: [YourSecretKey]" -d '{
"key": "New York",
"input": "New York"
}' "http://suggest.autocompleteapi.com/[YourAccountKey]/[FieldName]"

After indexing all document, to get autocomplete suggestions, use:

http://suggest.autocompleteapi.com/[YourAccountKey]/[FieldName]?prefix=new

You can use any client autocomplete library to show these results to the user.