Vespa is described as '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' and is a Search Server in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Vespa for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux, SaaS and Mac apps. The best Vespa alternative is Elasticsearch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vespa are Algolia, Apache Solr, Viglet Turing and FalkorDB.