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MeiliSearch
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
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Typesense
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
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Search Engine Parser
Lightweight package to query popular search engines and scrape for result titles, links and descriptions
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typesense-website
Typesense website and documentation | An open source search engine alternative to Algolia, Elasticsearch and Pinecone
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normalize-for-search
Un-accents and un-umlauts characters in a string. Also preliminary converts the string to lower case. We use it for autocomplete: both for the matched strings -- on the server side, when indexing; and for the strings the user types into a text input in the browser.
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Milli-py: Python bindings for Milli, an embeddable high-performance search engine
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.
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Meilisearch v1.0 – the open-source Rust alternative to Algolia and Elasticsearch
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?
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Faster Full Text Search
For our full text search, we used whoosh, which works pretty well for moderately big amount of data.
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We upgraded an old, 3PB large, Elasticsearch cluster without downtime
Nearly a decade ago (oh god) I converted some overdesigned five node ES mess to https://github.com/mchaput/whoosh. It's (obviously) not the fastest or anything, but it was more than good enough for low-dozens of GBs of mostly static data.
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Starting a KF Discord Bot
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.
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mchaput/whoosh is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of whoosh is Python.
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