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Lucene alternatives for AI agents.

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Solr

Similarity 168Trust 93Excellent 100

Apache Solr open-source search software

1.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch

$ npx skills add apache/solr

Lucene Solr

Similarity 164Trust 92Excellent 100

Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software

4.4K starsMay 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeSearchClaude Code

$ npx skills add apache/lucene-solr

OpenSearch

Similarity 148Trust 95Excellent 100

🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch

$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Similarity 141Trust 92Excellent 100

Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch

$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch

Pisa

Similarity 136Trust 91Excellent 96

PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia

1.1K starsMay 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search

$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisa

Jvector

Similarity 136Trust 92Excellent 100

JVector: the most advanced embedded vector search engine

1.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch

$ npx skills add datastax/jvector

Sonic

Similarity 135Trust 96Excellent 100

🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

21K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch

$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonic

Searx

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 100

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch

$ npx skills add searx/searx

Search Plugins

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Search plugins for qBittorrent search feature

6.3K starsMay 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch

$ npx skills add qbittorrent/search-plugins

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Vespa

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

The AI search platform

7.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaVector Search

$ npx skills add vespa-engine/vespa

#11

MarginaliaSearch

Similarity 128Trust 91Excellent 99

Internet search engine for text-oriented websites. Indexing the small, old and weird web.

1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch

$ npx skills add MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch

#12

Tantivy

Similarity 127Trust 97Excellent 100

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch

$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy

#13

Scira

Similarity 126Trust 96Excellent 100

Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!

12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch

$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira

#14

Lnx

Similarity 126Trust 86Excellent 85

A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.

1.4K starsOct 14, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch

$ npx skills add lnx-search/lnx

#15

Toshi

Similarity 126Trust 82Strong 77

A full-text search engine in rust

4.3K starsJan 19, 2024 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch

$ npx skills add toshi-search/Toshi

#16

Resin

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 85

Language model search engine built on a vector database and an anything key/value store.

575 starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC#Search

$ npx skills add kreeben/resin

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Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Lucene if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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