Any reason not use PostgreSQL's built-in full text search on Heroku?

Question

I\'m preparing to deploy a Rails app on Heroku that requires full text search. Up to now I\'ve been running it on a VPS using MySQL with Sphinx.

However, if I want to us

Answer 1

Postgres's full text search has amazing capabilities in the areas of stemming, ranking/boosting, synonym handling, fuzzy searches among others - but no support for faceted search.

So, if Postgres is already in your stack and you don't need faceting, better try it out to avail the HUGE benefit of ease of keeping indices in sync and maintaining sleek stack, before looking out for Lucene based solutions - at least if all your app is not based on search.