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Mroonga – full-text search engine for MySQL

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

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

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PGroonga – Groonga-powered full-text indexing for PostgreSQL

June 16, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

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

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RediSearch – search and indexing engine for Redis

June 16, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

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

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ParadeDB – PostgreSQL extension for search and analytics

June 15, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

ParadeDB adds BM25-ranked full-text and vector search to PostgreSQL, with SQL joins, facets, filtering and analytical aggregations.

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Quickwit – cloud-native search engine

June 14, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

Quickwit indexes logs and event data for cloud-native search, combining object storage, distributed query services and aggregations.

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Vespa – distributed search and ranking platform

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Vespa is a distributed search and recommendation platform with vector retrieval, configurable ranking, real-time updates and analytics.

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OpenSearch – enterprise-grade search and observability suite

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

OpenSearch is a distributed search and analytics engine supporting full-text, vector and hybrid retrieval, SQL queries and observability.

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Groonga – full-text search engine and column store

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

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

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Heatseeker – general-purpose fuzzy selector

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Heatseeker is a rewrite of selecta, a general-purpose fuzzy selector.

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SeaGOAT – semantic-code search engine

July 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

SeaGOAT is a local search tool that leverages vector embeddings to enable you to search your codebase semantically.

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Apache Solr – enterprise search platform

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

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

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Elasticsearch – distributed search and analytics engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Elasticsearch indexes documents for distributed full-text, vector and hybrid search, with REST APIs, aggregations and analytics.

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Meilisearch – fast application search engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Meilisearch delivers typo-tolerant application search with filtering, ranking, synonyms, federated queries and hybrid vector retrieval.

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Xapian – probabilistic information retrieval library

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

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

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Sphinx – SQL-oriented full-text search engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

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

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Typesense – fast typo-tolerant search engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

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

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Apache Lucene – full-text search engine library

September 4, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

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

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Manticore Search – full-text and vector search database

August 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Manticore Search combines full-text, vector and hybrid retrieval with SQL queries, real-time indexing, columnar storage and analytics.

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Why did Debian Linux replace Google with DuckDuckGo?

September 9, 2022 Lee Walker Internet

Debian decided to feature DuckDuckGo, a more privacy-focused search engine, as their default one

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Excellent Utilities: Whoogle Search – self-hosted metasearch engine

May 30, 2022 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Whoogle Search is a privacy-focused search engine. It displays the same results as Google Search but without ads/sponsored content, JavaScript, cookies, or tracking.

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