Tantivy

Rust port of Lucene — embedded full-text search engine. Underlies Quickwit, Lnx, Bayard. Used in Meilisearch and many in-process search engines.

Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 18 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type: Rust full-text search library repo fix
Tier: T2
Section: Search platforms (non-memory)
Created: 2016 repo fix
Latest release: searched not found fix
License: MIT repo fix
GitHub: quickwit-oss/tantivy — ~16.2k stars, active (commit date not captured) repo fix
Pricing: free (OSS) repo fix
Funding: searched not found fix
Freshness: 2026-10-26 fix
Layer: model-infra repo fix
Licensing: open-source repo fix
Deployment locus: local repo fix
Platform vs product: platform repo fix
SDK languages: rust repo fix
Developer activity: OpenRank 8.56 (12-mo avg 7.65) · 25 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix

Optimised for: searched not found

Anti-fit: searched not found

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Rust ecosystem standard for full-text search.

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Supabase Vector T1
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Typesense T2
Open-source search engine focused on typo-tolerance and ease of use — Typesense Cloud commercial; rising Algolia alternative.
Algolia T1
Search-as-a-service API for instant search experiences — NeuralSearch (vector) + lexical. Adopted by 12000+ companies including LVMH, Stripe.
Quickwit T2
Open-source distributed search engine for logs/traces — cloud-native (object storage as primary tier). Acquired by Datadog 2024.
Sajari (now Search.io) T3
Site-search platform (formerly Sajari) with the Neuralsearch vector engine. Acquired by Algolia in September 2022 and folded into Algolia's hybrid search; search.io now redirects to algolia.com.

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2026-10-26
- Pricing first recorded as “free (OSS)” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Self-hosted only — embedded Rust full-text search library” source
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