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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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$ npx skills add toshi-search/Toshi#4
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$ npx skills add searx/searx#6
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$ npx skills add qbittorrent/search-plugins#7
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$ npx skills add apache/lucene#8
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$ npx skills add mosuka/bayard#9
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$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisa#10
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$ npx skills add tinysearch/tinysearch#11
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
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$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#12
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!
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$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#13
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
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$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#14
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#15
A blazing fast inference solution for text embeddings models
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$ npx skills add huggingface/text-embeddings-inference#16
A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
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