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Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearchAlternatives
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Universal personal search engine, powered by a full text search algorithm written in pure Ink, indexing Linus's blogs and private note archives, contacts, tweets, and over a decade of journals.
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Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#3
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#4
๐ Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#5
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
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$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#6
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#7
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#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
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch โก ๐ โจ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
26K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Semantic Search
$ npx skills add typesense/typesense#10
Apache Solr open-source search software
1.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr#11
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#12
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
22K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#13
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
63K starsJul 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm#14
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#15
๐ 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#16
A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. ็ฎๆด้็จ็็พคไฝๆบ่ฝๅผๆ๏ผ้ขๆตไธ็ฉ
70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
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