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blast

Blast is a full text search and indexing server, written in Go, built on top of Bleve.

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What it is

Blast is a full text search and indexing server, written in Go, built on top of Bleve.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-01-15 09:28:04 UTC to 2022-10-24 14:36:37 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 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): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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hardwaresofton·Oct 24, 2022
Oh! Damn it I forgot about manticore -- I had seen it before but forgot to include it. Eventually all of these projects will be highlighted on Awesome F/OSS (https://awsmfoss.com), but for now I'm just going to dump my bookmarks here for other people, since I'm leaving awesome projects out: Search Engines AWS OpenSearch https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards https://github.com/opensearch-project/perftop https://github.com/go-ego/riot https://groonga.org/ https://github.com/groonga/groonga https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch https://github.com/mosuka/bayard https://github.com/nezaboodka/nevod https://github.com/searx/searx https://github.com/stryku/okon https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/valeriansaliou/s
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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
johnx123-up·Mar 3, 2021
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
manigandham·Jul 20, 2019
Elasticsearch is very popular because it works well for generic searching and can be customized for lots of unique scenarios. There's competition on the infrastructure side using something other than Java/JVM though: For Rust, there's Toshi: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi which is built on top of Tantivy: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy For C++, there's Xapiland: https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand For Go, there's Blast: https://github.com/mosuka/blast built on Bleve: https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
In Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
manigandham·Mar 24, 2019
Always nice to see more alternatives to Elasticsearch. That project could be so much better with some proper planning and focus. There's also Toshi: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi which is built on top of Tantivy: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy And for C++, there's Xapiland: https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand And for Go, there's Blast: https://github.com/mosuka/blast built on Bleve: https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
In Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in Rust

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