whoosh VS Typesense

Compare whoosh vs Typesense and see what are their differences.

whoosh

Pure-Python full-text search library (by mchaput)

Typesense

Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch āš” šŸ” āœØ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences (by typesense)
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whoosh Typesense
5 129
520 17,425
- 4.1%
0.0 9.8
3 months ago 5 days ago
Python C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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whoosh

Posts with mentions or reviews of whoosh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
  • Milli-py: Python bindings for Milli, an embeddable high-performance search engine
    4 projects | /r/Python | 13 Feb 2023
    The only other embeddable search engine I'm aware off, Whoosh, is brilliant but building the index was quite slow, and search performance degraded quite a lot as number of documents increase (performance is strictly a non-goal). Meilisearch was comparatively faster, I didn't like managing a server to get "just search" in my scripts and applications. However, their underlying engine Milli solves both issues I had, and all that was needed creating bindings for it.
  • Meilisearch v1.0 ā€“ the open-source Rust alternative to Algolia and Elasticsearch
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2023
    Is it really "just a single statically linked binary"?

    I'd love to use Meilisearch as you describe, but their so-called SDKs are just about for the search client, you still need the HTTP server listening on localhost.

    I would love to see something like SQLite based off Meilisearch (i.e. a fully selfcontained library like https://github.com/mchaput/whoosh). Do you know if such a thing exists?

  • Starting a KF Discord Bot
    3 projects | /r/KnowledgeFight | 24 Oct 2022
    Your best bet is to start using a proper search library rather than the simple loop with 'in' checks that you have now. A search lib will handle things like Unicode/ASCII similarities, removal of stop words, stemming, TF-IDF (and other) weighting, etc. and will be massively faster as well. Quite a few pages come up if you Google "python search engine", also Whoosh looks promising.

Typesense

Posts with mentions or reviews of Typesense. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing whoosh and Typesense you can also consider the following projects:

MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow

Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

Apache Solr - Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software

meilisearch-laravel-scout - MeiliSearch integration for Laravel Scout

loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.

sonic - šŸ¦” Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

vespa - AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai

manticoresearch - Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch now | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK soon

vector_engine - Build a semantic search engine with Transformers and Faiss

Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance

RedisGraph-GraphQL - Demo application querying RedisGraph via GraphQL

Searx - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine