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Hora alternatives for AI agents.

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Hora

πŸš€ efficient approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm collections library written in Rust πŸ¦€ .

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#1

Weaviate

Similarity 128Trust 90Excellent 100

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database​.

17K starsJul 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoSemantic Search
$ npx skills add weaviate/weaviate
#2

Qdrant

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

33K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant
#3

Lancedb

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

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
#4

Sonic

Similarity 124Trust 88Excellent 100

πŸ¦” 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
#5

Tantivy

Similarity 124Trust 90Excellent 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
#6

Quickwit

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

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
#7

Searxng

Similarity 119Trust 90Excellent 100

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
#8

Elasticsearch

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch
#9

Searx

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx
#10

OpenSearch

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

πŸ”Ž Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch
#11

Scira

Similarity 117Trust 89Excellent 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
#12

Flexsearch

Similarity 117Trust 86Excellent 100

Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js

14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch
#13

Whoogle Search

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

12K starsMay 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search
#14

Manticoresearch

Similarity 117Trust 86Excellent 100

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
#15

Meilisearch

Similarity 110Trust 85Excellent 100

A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

59K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch
#16

Orama

Similarity 110Trust 83Excellent 99

🌌 A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.

10K starsJun 30, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama

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