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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
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A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonicTantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearchApache Lucene open-source search software
$ npx skills add apache/luceneFree and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearchEasy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearchCloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwitApache Solr open-source search software
$ npx skills add apache/solrhigh-performance graph database for real-time use cases
$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraphSearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
$ npx skills add searxng/searxngA lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearchNext-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearchData Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databendQdrant - 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/
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrantDeveloper-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedbMemory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.
$ npx skills add memvid/memvidHow to choose
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