SearchUnit AlternativesSearch Servers and other similar apps like SearchUnit

SearchUnit is described as 'The modern, flexible, fully featured ASP.NET search engine component for your web applications. Free Community edition available' and is a Search Server in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SearchUnit for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best SearchUnit alternative is Elasticsearch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SearchUnit are Sphinx (search engine), Xapian, OpenSearchServer and Qdrant.

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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.

    65 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Elasticsearch is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SearchUnit.

    • Elasticsearch is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SearchUnit.

    • Elasticsearch is Freemium and Open SourceSearchUnit is Freemium and Proprietary
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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
     
  3. Xapian icon
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    Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a full text search engine library for programmers. It is written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    OpenSearchServer is an open source application server allowing development of index-based applications like search engines. Main features of OpenSearchServer are : An integrated crawler for databases, web pages and rich documents; a user friendly GUI allowing development of most...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. SearchBlox icon
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    SearchBlox is an out-of-the-box Enterprise Search Solution built on top of Apache Lucene/Solr. It is fast to deploy, easy to manage and available for both on-premise and cloud deployment.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • SearchBlox is the most popular commercial alternative to SearchUnit.

    • SearchBlox is Paid and ProprietarySearchUnit is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. ParadeDB icon
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    ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. Built for real-time, update-heavy workloads.

    51 ParadeDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • PostgreSQL
     
  8. Milvus icon
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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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    Simplify how agents connect to enterprise data. Build high-impact AI apps with one centralized solution for agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  10. Tribus icon
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    Enterprise search, simplified. Cloud-based enterprise search solution that search across all of your organization’s content sources — Aconex, Procore, Dropbox, Microsoft Sharepoint, Onedrive, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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