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🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
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Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
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🦔 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 searxng/searxng#8
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
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$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit#9
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
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$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#10
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
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$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#11
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
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$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#12
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
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$ npx skills add typesense/typesense#13
🌌 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.
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$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama#14
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
7.9K starsJul 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add MariaDB/server#15
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#16
The Fastest Distributed Database for Transactional, Analytical, and AI Workloads.
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