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24 alternatives to Apache Solr

Lucene based search server.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Apache Solr launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   ElasticSearch▲3

   Lucene based search server.

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Domainr▲203

   Worldwide domain search

   2013 · its alternatives →

3. 3TA
   Thoth – a real-time Solr monitor and search analysis engine▲17

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4OS
   Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index▲229

   2016 · deusu.org · its alternatives →

5. 5LL
   Liqe – Lightweight and performant Lucene-like parser and search engine▲7

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The Search▲340

   The all in one search engine for PH, DN, HN and GitHub ✊

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Tesse▲99

   A new interactive search engine with people as results

   2017 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Audiosear.ch 2.0▲131

   One-stop search and recommendation engine for podcasts

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9QW
   Quepid workbench for tuning Solr and Elasticsearch relevance▲7

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    searchcode▲75

    A source code search engine

    2014 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Audiosear.ch▲198

    Full text search & discovery engine for podcasts

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12MN
    My new domain search tool▲95

    2013 · shortdomainsearch.net · its alternatives →

13. 13IV
    I've built a Serverless search feature for my blog▲10

    Table of Contents Why Serverless? Solution Overview Data Extraction Search Backend Implementation Apache Lucene in a GraalVM Native Binary The Search HTTP Service Wiring Things Up Deployment to AWS …

    2020 · morling.dev · its alternatives →

14. 14AS
    A search widget for static web sites▲88

    2017 · webtigerteam.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Domainling▲149

    Domain search engine

    2017 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Dweb Search▲79

    A decentralized search engine for IPFS and Filecoin

    2021 · its alternatives →

17. 17TI
    TF-IDF search engine in 30 lines of Scala▲43

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Tantivy▲68

    A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19NF
    NameMonk – fast domain search using web sockets and Bloom filters▲85

    2013 · namemonk.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    abiko▲72

    Tor Search Engine

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21AB
    a blog search engine▲27

    2013 · sotosearch.com · its alternatives →

22. 22FT
    Full-text search with 16-bit vector space index and HTTP API▲13

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Mira – Search for files semantically – no exact filenames required▲5

    Would appreciate a star (and happy for ideas on improving indexing speed/embedding quality)!

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24SF
    Serverless Free Text Search with AWS Lambda▲12

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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