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🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearchAlternatives
Elasticsearch alternatives for AI agents.
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Apache Solr open-source search software
1.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr#3
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#4
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#5
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#6
🦔 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#7
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit#8
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#9
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
26K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Semantic Search
$ npx skills add typesense/typesense#10
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
22K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#11
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLSemantic Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#12
Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.
9.4K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend#13
SeaTunnel is a multimodal, high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool.
9.4K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaEmbeddings
$ npx skills add apache/seatunnel#14
A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. 简洁通用的群体智能引擎，预测万物
70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish#15
Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.
30K starsAug 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee#16
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
63K starsJul 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llmHow to choose
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