alt Hacker NewsIn case others are looking at Nominatim, this is from the Nominatim docs:
"For a full planet import 128GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM."
That's ~$150/mo at Hetzner on bare metal, $672/mo at Digital Ocean, starting at $487/mo at AWS. For a non-redundant, low-availability configuration.
I guess this is for type-ahead speed type queries? I found the page: https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation...
But it doesn't mention why you need this amount of RAM or how you could opt out of that requirement? i.e., if the queries run directly against the DB w/o indexes, etc. why the high RAM requirement?