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🦔 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
Quickwit alternatives for AI agents.
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Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
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90
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#2
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#3
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#4
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#5
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#6
A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
12K starsAug 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search#7
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#8
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#9
Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.
9.4K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend#10
Apache Lucene open-source search software
3.5K starsAug 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/lucene#11
Apache Solr open-source search software
1.7K starsSep 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr#12
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#13
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#14
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
59K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch#15
Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.
16K starsMay 27, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add memvid/memvid#16
The Fastest Distributed Database for Transactional, Analytical, and AI Workloads.
10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbaseHow to choose
When should you switch?
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Quickwit if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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