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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
Tinysearch alternatives for AI agents.
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Tinysearch
🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
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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
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#4
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#5
A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.
1.4K starsOct 14, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add lnx-search/lnx#6
A full-text search engine in rust
4.3K starsJan 19, 2024 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add toshi-search/Toshi#7
A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
3.2K starsMar 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePHPSearch
$ npx skills add teamtnt/tntsearch#8
A full-text search and indexing server written in Rust.
1.9K starsMar 6, 2023 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add mosuka/bayard#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
🚀 efficient approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm collections library written in Rust 🦀 .
2.7K starsFeb 17, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add hora-search/hora#11
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#12
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#13
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#14
MemFree - Hybrid AI Search Engine & AI Page Generator
1.5K starsAug 8, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add memfreeme/memfree#15
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx#16
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearchHow to choose
When should you switch?
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