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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
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
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PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
1.1K starsMay 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisa#3
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#4
A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
3.2K starsMar 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePHPSearch
$ npx skills add teamtnt/tntsearch#5
The open source code of this project is used for userscripts (油猴脚本) for desktop browsers, including Font Rendering (Customized) (字体渲染（自用脚本）- Font Rendering.user.js), and Search Engine Assistant (优雅的搜索引擎助手 - Google & Baidu Switcher.user.js), etc.
1.5K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add F9y4ng/GreasyFork-Scripts#6
🔍 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#7
Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node
6.0K starsSep 16, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add lucaong/minisearch#8
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#9
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#10
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#11
🦔 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#12
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#13
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#14
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#15
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#16
MemFree - Hybrid AI Search Engine & AI Page Generator
1.5K starsAug 8, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
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