Ques/Help Improving searching - best practices and add-ons

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salata

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Hi all,
I inherited small community xen based forum (DB size is 1GB, approx 100 active users) and review current status. The obvious improvement is search engine. Forum is hosted and current amount of RAM is 6GB. My concerns is ElasticSearch and how demanding on RAM it is. Also licensing model of ES may be an issue. Are there any options that not require ES to improve search? Also what is the best way (with or without ES) to improve search.

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