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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Search Engines

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

Mroonga adds Groonga-powered full-text search to MySQL, including multilingual indexing, wrapper mode and geolocation queries.

PGroonga adds Groonga-backed indexing to PostgreSQL for multilingual full-text search, JSON document queries and phrase matching.

RediSearch adds full-text, vector, numeric and geospatial querying to Redis data, with secondary indexes and aggregation support.

Groonga combines full-text search and column-oriented storage with fast updates, tokenizers, filters, faceting and geospatial queries.

Apache Solr delivers distributed enterprise search with faceting, highlighting, configurable schemas, replication and REST APIs.

Xapian is an information retrieval library with ranked full-text search, stemming, spelling suggestions, synonyms and query expansion.

Sphinx indexes SQL-backed content for full-text search, offering relevance ranking, phrase queries, real-time indexes and SphinxQL.

Typesense provides instant, typo-tolerant search with faceting, geo-filtering, tunable ranking and vector-based hybrid retrieval.

Apache Lucene is a search library offering indexing, BM25 ranking, phrase queries, faceting, highlighting and nearest-neighbour retrieval.