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🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
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$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#8
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$ npx skills add apache/lucene-solr#9
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$ npx skills add apache/lucene#10
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$ npx skills add yacy/yacy_search_server#11
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$ npx skills add lucaong/minisearch#13
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$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#14
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$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#15
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$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#16
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