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bayard
Rust2019–2022
mosuka / bayard

bayard

A full-text search and indexing server written in Rust.

6Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

A full-text search and indexing server written in Rust.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-11-01 12:03:43 UTC to 2022-10-24 22:42:22 UTC.

01232019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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onic Algolia https://github.com/marconi1992/algolite https://quickwit.io/ https://github.com/quickwit-inc/quickwit https://docs.meilisearch.com/ https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc phalanx https://github.com/blugelabs/bluge https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx https://github.com/mosuka/blast ManticoreSearch https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch https://github.com/manticoresoftware/docker https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el... https://manticoresearch.com/ https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Introduction https://forum.manticoresearch.com/t/manticore-search-cheatsh... https://forum.manticoresearch.com/ Whoosh https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://pypi.org/project/Whoosh/ lyra https://github.com/nearform/lyra https://nearform.github.io/lyra/ https://github.com/LyraSearch/lyra https://lyrasearch.io/ flexsearch https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch#performance-benchm... https://pagefind.app/docs/ Lucene https://github.com/apache/lucene https://lucene.apache.org/ ZincSearch https://zincsearch.com/ Solr https://solr.apache.org/ https://solr.apache.org/operator/ https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/getting-started/so... https://github.com/apache/solr https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/deployment-guide/s... Konnu https://gitlab.com/shadowislord/konnu Quickwit QuickWit + Clickhouse https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/guides/developer/full-text-se... https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/functions/strin... There is no way I can get to running all of these (this project was supposed to be quick!!), but I will run the ones I noted earlier, and probably manticore too since it was high on my list since it's quite polished looking.
In Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
I wish we had an extension like ZomboDB but using a lighter search engine like https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit, https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi and https://github.com/mosuka/bayard Here I'm listing engines based on https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - tantivy is comparable to Lucene in its scope - but I'm sure there are other engines that could tackle ElasticSearch. Another thing that could happen is maybe directly embed tantivy in Postgres using an extension, perhaps this could be an option too.
In Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
FWIW... 1. Toshi https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi (Rust, 3.1k stars) 2. Tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy (Rust, 4.5k stars) 3. PISA https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa (C++, 486 stars) 4. Bleve https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve (Go, 7.4k stars) 5. Sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic (Rust, 10.9k stars) 6. Partial comparison https://mosuka.github.io/search-benchmark-game/ (tantivy Vs lucene Vs pisa Vs bleve) 7. Bayard https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard (Rust, on top of Tantivy, 1.4k stars) 8. Blast https://github.com/mosuka/blast (Go, on top of Bleve, 930 stars) Algolia alternatives with some compatibility 1. MeiliSearch https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch (Rust, 12.4k stars) 2. typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense (C++, 5.1k stars)
In ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis

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