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zincsearch

ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go.

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ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go.

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Observed mentions: 2021-12-03 12:39:14 UTC to 2025-07-23 16:25:24 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
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What Hacker News says

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hardwaresofton·Jun 12, 2023
Please give the benefit of the doubt on HN. This company created ZincSearch: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch Prabhat is one of the core contributors/maintainers: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch/graphs/contributors https://github.com/prabhatsharma Also the negative insinuation of using “cheap” labor out of India to build the product is unnecessary. If you’re concerned about code quality, look at the code. Assuming everyone working with devs in India is doing so cynically is not charitable. I dont know why the headquarters was set as india versus SF but does it actually even matter?
In Show HN: OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative
mdaniel·Jan 13, 2023
I would pay $5 to have every one of these projects stop saying "alternative to ElasticSearch" unless they implement the ES API (as https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc at least claims) because if one just wanted some schemaless full text searching wizardry, there are about 10 of those projects. If one is trying to replace kibana or the damn near infinite log gathering tools that target ES, Sonic and Melisearch and and and are not going to get it done q.v. https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc/blob/v0.3.6/docs/swagger.ya...
In Sonic: A super-light alternative to Elasticsearch
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
hardwaresofton·Oct 24, 2022
Wow it's weird that this comes up, I'm actually running a site I am going to repost to HN today that I want to use as a testbed for search engines (kind of like an extension to my recent collaboration with supabase[0]). Right now I've got the site going on just Postgres FTS + trigram and it's pretty darn fast, looks like I need to test sonic too. Going to burn some midnight oil (in my timezone, anyway) and get it out -- though sonic isn't implemented yet! Anyway to make this comment useful to people, here's my short list of engines that I want to run in parallel: - MeiliSearch (https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch) - TypeSense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense) - Lyra (https://github.com/LyraSearch/lyra) - OpenSearch (https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch) - ZincSearch (https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc) - Sonic
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(https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic) There isn't enough out there comparing all these for the simple typical fuzzy search/search box usecase, so I'm adapting a little podcast search site I made to try and use all of these at the same time. So far only Postgres though, will try and add Meilisearch today and post it! Like other people are pointing out, most of these engines won't have all the features of ES (or more accurately Lucene) but I am pretty convinced that most of the time it doesn't actually matter and if someone is searching on your site excessively maybe there's a problem with your UX (unless you're a search engine or repository of information). [0]: https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-vs-the-r...
In Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
francoismassot·Sep 22, 2022
(disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounder of Quickwit.io, we are doing log search) (edited to add vector search category and add manticore) When looking at OSS search projects, it's nice to have a rough ideas of the different use cases, here is the list I have in mind: - user facing search (think algolia): elasticsearch[1]/opensearch[2], meilisearch[3], typesense[4] - enterprise search: elasticsearch/opensearch - log search: elasticsearch/opensearch, loki[5], quickwit[6], zincsearch[7] - vector search: Milvus[8], Qdrant[9], Vald[10] Weaviate[11] Vespa.ai[12] is great but I don't really know in which category to put them, user facing and enterprise search seems to work well with them. It's interesting to note that Elasticsearch and Opensearch are general purpose search engine, Solr as well. They are all powered by Lucene, the popular and per
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formant search engine library. Another general purpose search engine is Manticore search[13]. I would love to see some benchmarks by category :) Note: I don't know well ZincSearch and put it in the log search as said on their front page. [1]: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch [2]: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch [3]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/ [4]: https://github.com/typesense/typesense [5]: https://github.com/grafana/loki [6]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit [7]: https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc [8]: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus [9]: https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant [10]: https://github.com/vdaas/vald [11]: https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate [12]: https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa [13]: https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch
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