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Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
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🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
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$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit#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
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
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$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#13
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$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm#14
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLSemantic Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#15
Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs
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$ npx skills add FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding#16
🌌 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.
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