Typesense is a typo tolerant search engine that delivers fast and relevant results out-of-the-box.
Typesense ranks search results using a simple tie-breaking sorting algorithm that can rely on one or more of:
- Text match score, exposed as a special _text_match field.
- User-defined indexed numerical fields.
You can use the open source InstantSearch.js library, along with our Typesense-InstantSearch-Adapter to build a plug-and-play full-featured search interface, with just a few lines of code.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Typo Tolerance – handles typographical errors elegantly, out-of-the-box.
- Simple and Delightful – simple to set-up, integrate with, operate and scale.
- Blazing Fast – architectured from the ground-up for low-latency (<50ms) instant searches.
- Tunable Ranking – easy to tailor your search results to perfection.
- Sorting – sort results based on a particular field at query time (helpful for features like “Sort by Price (asc)”).
- Faceting & Filtering – drill down and deep dive into the results.
- Grouping & Distinct: – group similar results together to show more variety.
- Scoped API Keys: – generate API keys that only allow access to certain records.
- Curation & Merchandising – boost particular records to a fixed position in the search results, to feature them.
- Raft-based Clustering – setup a distributed cluster that is highly available.
- High availability – add more nodes with no fuss and bother. Typesense uses the Raft consensus algorithm to manage the cluster and recover from node failures.
- Seamless Version Upgrades – as new versions of Typesense are released, upgrading is as simple as swapping out the binary and restarting Typesense.
Website: typesense.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Typesense Inc.
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Typesense is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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