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🦔 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/sonicAlternatives
Rats Search alternatives for AI agents.
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Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
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$ npx skills add searx/searx#3
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
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$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#4
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$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#5
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$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#6
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$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#7
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15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#8
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#9
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$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#10
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
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$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#11
A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
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$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search#12
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
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$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#13
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#14
🌌 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#15
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
7.9K starsJul 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add MariaDB/server#16
Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.
9.2K starsMay 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
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