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🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearchAlternatives
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An open-source AI content search engine designed specifically for content creators. Supports extraction of text, images, and short videos. Allows full local deployment (web app, RAG server, LLM server). Supports multi-modal RAG content Q&A.
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Apache Lucene open-source search software
3.5K starsAug 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/lucene#3
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
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$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#4
🦔 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#5
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#6
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$ npx skills add cboxdoerfer/fsearch#7
Apache Solr open-source search software
1.7K starsSep 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr#8
🌌 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#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
[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG#11
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
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$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#12
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#13
A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
12K starsAug 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search#14
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#15
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#16
Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
37K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
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