Apart from being written in Rust, MeiliSearch (https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch) differs mostly on the use of a bucket sort to rank the documents retrieved within the index.

Both MeiliSearch and Typesense use a reverse index with a Levenshtein automaton to handle typos, but when it comes to sorting document:

- Typesense use a default_sorting_field on each document, it means that before indexing your documents you need to compute a relevancy score for typesense to be able to sort them based on your needs (https://typesense.org/docs/0.11.1/guide/#ranking-relevance)

- On the other hand MeiliSearch, uses a bucket sort which means that there is a default relevancy algorithm based on the proximity of words in the documents, the fields in which the words are found and the number of typos (https://docs.meilisearch.com/guides/advanced_guides/ranking....). And you can still add you own custom rules if you want to alter the default search behavior.