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๐ฆ 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
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Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
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$ npx skills add searx/searx#3
๐ 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 searxng/searxng#5
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$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#6
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15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#7
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11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit#8
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$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#9
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
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$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#10
A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
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$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search#11
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#12
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
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$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#13
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$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbase#14
๐ 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
A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. ็ฎๆด้็จ็็พคไฝๆบ่ฝๅผๆ๏ผ้ขๆตไธ็ฉ
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$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish#16
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
63K starsJul 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
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