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WordPress search, offloaded

Make your WordPress go

MaplePress moves WordPress search off MySQL and onto Meilisearch, orchestrated in Go and backed by Cassandra. Hosts carry more sites on the same servers, and every one of those sites searches faster.

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  • Drop-in compatible: no migrations, no plugin conflicts
  • No new servers, no downtime, no code rewrites
  • Built and maintained in Canada
The MaplePress mark: a W inside a ring

What it does to your numbers

faster search queries
15×
less CPU per query
93%
more capacity on existing hardware
20-30%

Search that grows with WordPress

WordPress search runs on MySQL LIKE queries, a method designed for small relational lookups. Giving search its own engine frees the CPU, I/O and memory those queries used, so the database does what it does best. For a host running tens of thousands of WordPress sites, that means steady performance at peak traffic, every tenant served evenly, and more sites on the hardware already in the rack.
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How MaplePress takes the load

  • Search off the database

    Meilisearch replaces WordPress’s native search layer, so the most expensive part of WordPress no longer touches MySQL at all.

  • Go, Meilisearch, Cassandra

    Built in Go for speed, Meilisearch for search, and Cassandra for distributed storage, to answer in under 50ms across millions of indexed documents.

  • Tenants kept apart

    Isolating search from the database layer stops a malicious or runaway query on one site from slowing the others.

  • Zero disruption

    A lightweight service and API endpoint that runs alongside your current stack. No site migrations and no plugin conflicts.

  • Typos and synonyms

    Typo tolerance, synonyms and relevance ranking come built in, with no tuning.

  • Zero-downtime reindexing

    An index is rebuilt while the site keeps serving queries.

If you host WordPress, the savings scale with you

Hosting 100,000 WordPress sites can cost upwards of $2 million a year. At that scale a 25% efficiency gain is worth about $500,000 a year, and MaplePress adds 20-30% capacity to the hardware already in the rack.

Source-available under the MOTL

MaplePress is released under the Maple Open Tech License: the source is there to read and audit, free for personal, academic and evaluation use, and it becomes fully open four years after each release. Ethical-use limits never expire.

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Tell us what your search load looks like

Roughly how many sites you run and how hard they search. We will come back with what MaplePress would save you, in your numbers rather than ours.

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