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Groonga – fulltext search engine and column store

Groonga is a fulltext search engine and column store. It lets you write high-performance applications that requires fulltext search.

One of the characteristics of Groonga is that a newly registered document instantly appears in search results. Also, Groonga allows updates without read locks. These characteristics result in superior performance on real-time applications.

Groonga is also a column-oriented database management system (DBMS). Compared with well-known row-oriented systems, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, column-oriented systems are more suited for aggregate queries. Due to this advantage, Groonga can cover weakness of row-oriented systems.

This is cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

This is free and open source software.

Website: groonga.org
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Developer: Groonga Project
License: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1

Groonga is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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