Top 11 text-search Open-Source Projects

zombodb

23 4,608 8.3 PLpgSQL

Making Postgres and Elasticsearch work together like it's 2023

Project mention: Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-21

And lots of interesting extensions use it, like
https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq
https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb
https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema

minisearch

10 4,055 7.9 JavaScript

Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node

Project mention: Character and Subsector generators for Classic Traveller, with TAS Forms! | /r/traveller | 2023-12-07

I wrote an online catalog a while back (and I need to get back on adding graphics and products at some point). It’s written using Eleventy and the minisearch library. The source and data are available on Github if you want to see how I did things. I’m not a professional web designer either, but it was a fun project.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Top2Vec

13 2,833 7.0 Python

Top2Vec learns jointly embedded topic, document and word vectors.

Project mention: [D] Is it better to create a different set of Doc2Vec embeddings for each group in my dataset, rather than generating embeddings for the entire dataset? | /r/MachineLearning | 2023-10-28

I'm using Top2Vec with Doc2Vec embeddings to find topics in a dataset of ~4000 social media posts. This dataset has three groups:

ugrep

24 2,422 9.1 C++

NEW ugrep 5.1: an ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep. Ugrep combines the best features of other grep, adds new features, and searches fast. Includes a TUI and adds Google-like search, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches nested archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more

Project mention: Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-30

usearch

20 1,611 9.8 C++

Fast Open-Source Search & Clustering engine × for Vectors & 🔜 Strings × in C++, C, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Java, Objective-C, Swift, C#, GoLang, and Wolfram 🔍

Project mention: USearch SQLite Extensions for Vector and Text Search | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-22

fuzzysearch

1 280 0.0 Python

Find parts of long text or data, allowing for some changes/typos. (by taleinat)
qlever

3 272 9.4 C++

Very fast SPARQL Engine, which can handle very large knowledge graphs like the complete Wikidata, offers context-sensitive autocompletion for SPARQL queries, and allows combination with text search. It's faster than engines like Blazegraph or Virtuoso, especially for queries involving large result sets.

Project mention: QLever – Fast Sparql Engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-10

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
hotpdf

1 162 9.7 Python

hotpdf is a fast PDF parsing library to extract text and find text within PDF documents built on top of pdfminer.six

Project mention: Show HN: Hotpdf – Search and Extract text within PDFs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-27

mongo-search

1 10 10.0 TypeScript

Fuzzy Text Search And Autocompletion With MongoDB And Node.js
powershell-grep

2 4 4.5 PowerShell

PowerShell-Grep brings the power and flexibility of the Linux grep command to Windows PowerShell. It's an essential tool for those who need advanced search capabilities in a familiar, command-line interface.

Project mention: Introducing Grep and Which for Powershell: Essential Tools for Windows, Linux, and Azure | /r/developers | 2023-05-24

Grep for Powershell: https://github.com/The-da-vinci/powershell-grep Which for Powershell: [link]

kawadi

1 3 0.0 Python

kawadi is my collection of tools, that I need more frequently

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-21.