Elasticsearch AlternativesTop Search Servers and other similar apps like Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is described as 'Unmatched relevance. Real-time insights. Anything is possible — when the precision of search meets the intelligence of AI' and is a popular Search Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Elasticsearch for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted, Mac and Windows apps. The best Elasticsearch alternative is Algolia. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Algolia or Apache Solr. Other great apps like Elasticsearch are OpenSearch, Manticore search, Vespa and Searchspring.

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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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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android SDK
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • cURL
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Node.JS
    • Objective-C
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    Comments about Algolia as an Alternative to Elasticsearch
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    Algolia is a great alternative if you don't want to spend time configuring your own server and just want something that works, fast.

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    Its closed sourced and not possible to self-host.

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    One is application another is service you need to pay for

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    • Some users think Algolia is a great Elasticsearch alternative, some don't.

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

    • Algolia is the most popular free alternative to Elasticsearch.

    • Algolia is Free Personal and ProprietaryElasticsearch is Freemium and Open Source
  2. Apache Solr icon

    Apache Solr

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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.

    48 Apache Solr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
    The Velocity Search UI
     
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    • Almost everyone thinks Apache Solr is a great Elasticsearch alternative.

    • Apache Solr is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Elasticsearch.

    • Apache Solr is the most popular Open Source alternative to Elasticsearch.

    • Apache Solr is Free and Open SourceElasticsearch is Freemium and Open Source
  4. 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 SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Elasticsearch.

    • Meilisearch is the most popular commercial alternative to Elasticsearch.

    • Meilisearch is Paid and Open SourceElasticsearch is Freemium and Open Source
  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
    OpenSearch Dashboards
     
  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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    Vespa

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    Vespa is an engine for low-latency computation over large data sets. It stores and indexes your data such that queries, selection and processing over the data can be performed at serving time.

    19 Vespa alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Typesense icon

    Typesense

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Measured Search icon

    Measured Search

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    Measured Search provides a fully-managed personalized search & discovery service offering feature packed textual & relevance based search, contextualized recommendations combined with search & interaction analytics that enable you to increase conversions...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Coveo

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    The Coveo Relevance Cloud™ is a market-leading AI-powered relevance platform. We aim to enable our customers to deliver the relevant experiences that we believe people expect in the new digital economy.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  13. Jina Neural Search icon

    Jina Neural Search

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    Open-source neural search framework for text, images, audio, or video. Leverages pre-trained neural network algorithms to index and query data without need for complex rules and fragile pipelines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Image to image search
    Question-answering chatbot
    Search with image AND text
     
  14. Milvus icon

    Milvus

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
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