resin VS Apache Solr

I've built a search engine. It has its own query language, data structures and binary file formats, it's MIT licensed and it has around 60 forks. Nobody uses it though, even though it has been around for some years but it was just until recently that I managed to solve the very last of the most crucial of bugs, so I don't find that surprising at all.

It works well now, though, for a Wikipedia sized text based corpus, even though it's still in beta and contains code that can still be optimized. However, before I want to go any further with the project, I'd like to see if I can sell it, the copyright to my code, that is. Because maybe I want to be in the business of creating smart code, then sell it, then move on to the next thing? And maybe some company would like to have a search engine in their software portfolio? Suppose we meet, have a drink, see what happens.

Do I have the rights to sell it, though?

I'm the author of 99.999% of the commits.

https://github.com/kreeben/resin

There are already many project about search:

- https://www.marginalia.nu/

- https://searchmysite.net/

- https://lucene.apache.org/

- elastic search

- https://presearch.com/

- https://stract.com/

- https://wiby.me/

I think that all project are fun. I would like to see one succeeding at reaching mainstream level of attention.

I have also been gathering links meta data for some time. Maybe I will use them to feed any eventual self hosted search engine, or language model, if I decide to experiment with that.

- domains for seed https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

- bookmarks seed https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

- links for year https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024

Elasticsearch is based on Lucene and is used by various companies and developers across the world to build custom search solutions.

elastic search is kinda heavyweight infra for a small project. Its built on top of apache lucene (https://lucene.apache.org), which you can use directly.

Elasticsearch is based on Lucene, which is built in Java. This means that monitoring the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) memory is crucial to understand the current usage of the whole system.

Apache Lucene which seems to have a lot more features than Elasticsearch

Generally with term vectors and a tf-idf index. Lucene is a good starting place to help.

try elasticsearch or solr, behind the scenes they both use https://lucene.apache.org/ if you don't want basically a full nosql database service, but I'd just slap solr up and call it a day.

OpenSearch is an open-source database to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. It’s built on top of Apache Lucerce, a FOSS library for indexing and search, which OpenSearch leverages for more advanced analytics capabilities, like anomaly detection, machine learning, full-text search, and more.

Lucene is the thing you think you need. Elastic Search is a nice wrapper for it. But these are Java, so maybe you want Sphinx Search (C++) or MeiliSearch (Rust).