elastic/elasticsearchGitHub
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full-text search engine library
Tantivy is a Rust library for building full-text search engines, inspired by Apache Lucene, providing indexing and query APIs rather than a search server.
Same job, different approach
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
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apache/lucene-solrGitHub
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apache/luceneGitHub
When you need the battle-tested Java full-text search library that inspired Tantivy.
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olivernn/lunr.jsGitHub
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These projects were analysed and named tantivy among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how tantivy rates them is a separate judgement, made when tantivy is analysed in its own right.
elastic/elasticsearchGitHub
calls tantivy “When you want to embed a Lucene-like full-text search library directly in a Rust application.”
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77.9kJavaactive
valeriansaliou/sonicGitHub
calls tantivy “when you want to embed full-text search into your Rust app instead of running a separate server.”
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
21.3kRustactive
krisk/FuseGitHub
calls tantivy “Choose when building a Rust search application and need a full-text engine library, not a JS frontend.”
Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript
20.5kJavaScriptactive
nextapps-de/flexsearchGitHub
calls tantivy “Choose when you need a Rust full-text search library inspired by Lucene; different language, high performance.”
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
13.8kJavaScriptactive
opensearch-project/OpenSearchGitHub
calls tantivy “Choose as an embeddable Rust search library instead of running a standalone search server.”
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13.6kJavaactive
olivernn/lunr.jsGitHub
calls tantivy “Use when you need a Rust full-text search engine library with Lucene-like features.”
A bit like Solr, but much smaller and not as bright
9.2kJavaScriptdormant
manticoresoftware/manticoresearchGitHub
calls tantivy “Choose for embedding a Lucene-like full-text search library in Rust; library only, no vector search or SQL.”
Open-source search database for full-text, vector, and hybrid search with real-time indexing and SQL.
12.0kC++active