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Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearchAlternatives
Crawler alternatives for AI agents.
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Norconex Crawlers (or spiders) are flexible web and filesystem crawlers for collecting, parsing, and manipulating data from the web or filesystem to various data repositories such as search engines.
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๐ Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#3
Apache Lucene open-source search software
3.5K starsAug 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/lucene#4
Apache Solr open-source search software
1.7K starsSep 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr#5
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#6
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/sonic#7
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#8
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#9
A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
12K starsAug 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search#10
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#11
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#12
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#13
SeaTunnel is a multimodal, high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool.
9.6K starsAug 27, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaEmbeddings
$ npx skills add apache/seatunnel#14
A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. ็ฎๆด้็จ็็พคไฝๆบ่ฝๅผๆ๏ผ้ขๆตไธ็ฉ
70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish#15
Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/
33K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant#16
Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.
30K starsAug 23, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
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