#1
A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.
1.4K starsOct 14, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
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Sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
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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
Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software
4.4K starsMay 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeSearchClaude Code
$ npx skills add apache/lucene-solr#4
Apache Lucene open-source search software
3.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/lucene#5
A full-text search engine in rust
4.3K starsJan 19, 2024 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add toshi-search/Toshi#6
Apache Solr open-source search software
1.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr#7
🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
2.9K starsFeb 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add tinysearch/tinysearch#8
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#9
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx#10
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#11
Search plugins for qBittorrent search feature
6.3K starsMay 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add qbittorrent/search-plugins#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
ACID Document Database
4.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC#Search
$ npx skills add ravendb/ravendb#14
rats-search: BitTorrent P2P multi-platform search engine for Desktop and Web servers with integrated torrent client
1.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add librats/rats-search#15
Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node
6.0K starsSep 16, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add lucaong/minisearch#16
A full-text search and indexing server written in Rust.
1.9K starsMar 6, 2023 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
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