Elasticlunr Alternatives

Apps similar to Elasticlunr include Elasticsearch, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Apache Solr, Carrot2, Chroma DB and Qdrant. You can choose from more than 10 Search Servers like Elasticlunr for Linux, the web, self-hosting, Mac and Windows.

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

    70 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  2. Apache Solr icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
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  3. Carrot2 icon
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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.

    16 Carrot2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Linux
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  4. Chroma DB icon
     1 like

    Open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Python
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  5. Qdrant icon
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    Qdrant (read: quadrant) is a vector similarity search engine and vector database. It provides a production-ready service with a convenient API to store, search, and manage points—vectors with an additional payload Qdrant is tailored to extended filtering support.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  6. 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.

    46 Sphinx (search engine) alternatives

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Milvus icon
     1 like

    Milvus is an open-source vector database built to power embedding similarity search and AI applications. Milvus makes unstructured data search more accessible, and provides a consistent user experience regardless of the deployment environment.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
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  8. Fuse.js icon
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    Generally speaking, fuzzy searching (more formally known as approximate string matching) is the technique of finding strings that are approximately equal to a given pattern (rather than exactly).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. ItemsAPI icon
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    The goal of ItemsAPI is creating search application without spending time for backend. You just provide json data and your backend is ready to go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • elasticsearch
    • Heroku
    • Node.JS
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  10. Lunr.js icon
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    Lunr Search is a compact, full-featured search tool that doesn't require external server-side services. It offers language processors for accurate user query results and can be adjusted to suit your content. Lunr works in your browser or on a server with node.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Web Browser
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  11. ParadeDB icon
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    ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. Built for real-time, update-heavy workloads.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • PostgreSQL
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  12.  Like

    Fuzzy is a fuzzy search library designed to match a relatively short search phrase (needle) against a large list of short-to-medium phrases (haystack). It might be best described as a more forgiving String.includes().

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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