Apache Solr AlternativesSearch Servers and other similar apps like Apache Solr

Apache Solr is described as 'Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document handling' and is a Search Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Apache Solr for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted, Mac and Windows apps. The best Apache Solr alternative is Algolia. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Algolia or Elasticsearch. Other great apps like Apache Solr are OpenSearch, Manticore search, Searchspring and Carrot2.

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  1. Algolia icon

    Algolia

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    Algolia helps product teams connect their users with information by providing the building blocks they need to create fast, relevant, personalized search.

    67 Algolia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android SDK
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • cURL
    • Ruby on Rails
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    Solr is self hosted. Algoria is not.

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    • Algolia is the most popular Web-based alternative to Apache Solr.

    • Algolia is the most popular free alternative to Apache Solr.

    • Algolia is Free Personal and ProprietaryApache Solr is Free and Open Source
  2. Meilisearch icon

    Meilisearch

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    Meilisearch helps you shape a delightful search experience in a snap, offering features that work out-of-the-box to speed up your workflow.

    28 Meilisearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Meilisearch is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Apache Solr.

    • Meilisearch is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to Apache Solr.

    • Meilisearch is Paid and Open SourceApache Solr is Free and Open Source
  4. Elasticsearch icon

    Elasticsearch

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    Unmatched relevance. Real-time insights. Anything is possible — when the precision of search meets the intelligence of AI.

    65 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  5. OpenSearch icon

    OpenSearch

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    OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

    37 OpenSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  6. Manticore search icon

    Manticore search

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    Open source search server designed to be fast, scalable and with powerful and accurate full-text search capabilities derived from Sphinx search project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Searchspring icon

    Searchspring

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    Searchspring provides solutions for online retailers such as site search, personalization, merchandising, and insights. It's compatible with ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and Miva.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Carrot2

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    Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Linux
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  10. Pagefind icon

    Pagefind

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    Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.

    51 Pagefind alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
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  11. Metasearch icon

    Metasearch

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    Search aggregator for Slack, Google Docs, GitHub, and more.

    13 Metasearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  12. Sphinx (search engine) icon

    Sphinx (search engine)

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    Sphinx is a software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC-compliant databases as data sources natively. Other data sources can be indexed via pipe in a custom XML format.

    45 Sphinx (search engine) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Searchcraft

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    Searchcraft is a highly performant, content-optimized search engine written in Rust. It has lower resource footprint than Elasticsearch with faster response times. It aims to be faster, easier to implement, and easier to manage than Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Agolia and Solr...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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    Whoosh

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    Whoosh is a library of classes and functions for indexing text and then searching the index. It allows you to develop custom search engines for your content.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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