Chroma DB Alternatives

Chroma DB is described as 'Open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications' and is an app in the business & commerce category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Chroma DB for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Web-based, Mac and Windows apps. The best Chroma DB 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 Chroma DB are OpenSearch, Golem, Apache Solr and Manticore search.

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  1. Algolia icon
     78 likes

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

    69 Algolia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android SDK
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • cURL
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Node.JS
    • Objective-C
     
    • Algolia is the most popular Web-based alternative to Chroma DB.

    • Algolia is the most popular free alternative to Chroma DB.

    • Algolia is Free Personal and ProprietaryChroma DB is Freemium and Open Source
  2. Meilisearch icon
     40 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    • Meilisearch is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to Chroma DB.

    • Meilisearch is Paid and Open SourceChroma DB is Freemium and Open Source
  3. Elasticsearch icon
     53 likes

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

    66 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. Golem icon
     12 likes

    Golem is a global, open sourced, decentralized supercomputer that anyone can access. It's made up of the combined power of user's machines, from personal laptops to entire datacenters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Apache Solr icon
     26 likes

    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.

    49 Apache Solr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  7. 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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. FalkorDB icon
     3 likes

    A super fast Graph Database uses GraphBLAS under the hood for its sparse adjacency matrix graph representation. Our goal is to provide the best Knowledge Graph for LLM (GraphRAG).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Typesense icon
     6 likes

    An open source, blazing fast, typo tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences. Focuses on developer happiness and ease of use, with a painless out-of-the-box experience.

    24 Typesense alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Quickwit icon
     2 likes

    Quickwit is the next-gen search & analytics engine built for logs. It is a highly reliable & cost-efficient alternative to Elasticsearch.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Pagefind icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
     
  12. Metasearch icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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