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A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
3.2K starsMar 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePHPSearch
$ npx skills add teamtnt/tntsearchAlternatives
Manticoresearch alternatives for AI agents.
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Manticoresearch
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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ACID Document Database
4.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC#Search
$ npx skills add ravendb/ravendb#3
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
58K starsJun 11, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch#4
🦔 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
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#6
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.
7.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add MariaDB/server#7
The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text.
4.6K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add infiniflow/infinity#8
Fast Open-Source Search & Clustering engine × for Vectors & Arbitrary Objects × in C++, C, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Java, Objective-C, Swift, C#, GoLang, and Wolfram 🔍
4.2K starsMay 28, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Semantic Search
$ npx skills add unum-cloud/USearch#9
🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
2.9K starsFeb 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add tinysearch/tinysearch#10
rats-search: BitTorrent P2P multi-platform search engine for Desktop and Web servers with integrated torrent client
1.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add librats/rats-search#11
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#12
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 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Semantic Search
$ npx skills add typesense/typesense#13
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#14
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#15
PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
1.1K starsMay 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisa#16
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
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