# Text Search Engine

**URL:** https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/text-search-engine/2471
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/text-search-engine/2471 "2016-02-05T12:45:56Z")
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### Author: ![Girish\_Mane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@Girish\_Mane](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Girish_Mane)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/text-search-engine/2471/1 "2016-02-05T12:45:56Z")

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I have a doubt, can Aerospike behave as full text search engine like Elasticsearch (I have a use case in my mind). If so how can it be achieved and/or how close can it get to Elasticsearch. I know both of them are build for different uses but just wondering.