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PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
1.1K starsMay 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisaAlternatives
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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#3
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#4
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$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#5
1st Place Solution for CrowdFlower Product Search Results Relevance Competition on Kaggle.
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$ npx skills add ChenglongChen/kaggle-CrowdFlower#6
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#7
🦔 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#8
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#9
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#10
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#11
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!
12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#12
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx#13
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#14
A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
12K starsMay 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search#15
Search plugins for qBittorrent search feature
6.3K starsMay 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add qbittorrent/search-plugins#16
A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
4.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeCSearch
$ npx skills add cboxdoerfer/fsearchHow to choose
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