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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/tantivyAlternatives
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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/
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$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend#4
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$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex#7
🦔 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 valeriansaliou/sonic#8
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$ npx skills add MariaDB/server#9
Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.
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$ npx skills add activeloopai/deeplake#10
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$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbase#11
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$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama#12
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$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#13
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
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$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#14
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
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$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#15
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
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$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#16
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
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