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24 alternatives to Liqe – Lightweight and performant Lucene-like parser and search engine

Lightweight and performant Lucene-like parser, serializer and search engine. - gajus/liqe

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Liqe – Lightweight and performant Lucene-like parser and search engine launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go - cube2222/jql

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN. I've gotten pretty tired of needing to learn a custom programming language for a tool I use once a week or less. So I figured, it might be easier to pick up if `jq` used a programming language I already know. Voila, gq.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Meta programming utilities for C++14. Merged in matt-42/lithium - matt-42/iod

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. Contribute to pisa-engine/pisa development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tantivy▲68

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

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Full Text Search Engine - built for Hackers not Hyperscalers - 0xnyn/blaze

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GHCJS front-end for queryparser. Contribute to dlthomas/sql-viewer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SQL micro-dialect implementation for querying JSON objects. Written purely in Scala. - mmalek06/JsonSql

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. Contribute to pisa-engine/pisa development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stream based full-text search for Node.js and browsers. Built on LevelDB. - cshum/levi

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Anyquery▲110

    Query anything with SQL (e.g. Notion, GitHub, JSON)

    2024 · anyquery.dev · its alternatives →

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    I've always been curious about how SQL engines actually work. So I built a minimum viable SQL engine in Go. - Supports CSV files as tables - Supports SELECT, FROM, WHERE, LIMIT It's very simple: 1. Parses query string 2. Converts it into an AST representation 3. Executes the query against the CSV 4. Returns the results

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I just released v2.0.0 of FilterQL, a query language and TypeScript library. This version adds support for Operations, which allow you to transform the data after filtering. If you think this would be useful in a project you're working on, give it a try and let me know what you think!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :aquarius: A Lisp-esque, JS-interpreted scripting language - tsortwehttam/runiq

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability. Contribute to quickwit-oss/quickwit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Define and run pattern-based custom linting rules. - quasilyte/go-ruleguard

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Search a 100,000-article ParqDB index directly in the browser with MiniLM, HTTP Range, Parquet, and WebAssembly.

    Aug 2026 · search.parqdb.io · its alternatives →

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    Linq▲35

    Build search engine for texts, images and beyond In 1 hour

    2023 · getlinq.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I made Lingo - the SQLite of semantic search. I'm a self-taught developer and researcher who left school at 16, and I've spent some time exploring a first-principles approach to system design for various frontier problems. In this case it's AI that challenges the 'bigger is better' transformer paradigm. Lingo is the first piece of that research, a high-performance linguistic database designed to run on-device. The full technical overview and manifesto is here: https://medium.com/@robm.antunes/bcd1e9752af6 The paper has been archived on Zenodo with a DOI:…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    What's your tool chain for data and document processing? - jq is great, but limited to JSON; and jQuery limited to HTML; templating systems get messy for non-trivial logic; TypeScript lacks pattern matching and schema support. So I built Lambda — an expressive functional language that combines the power of Lisp, TypeScript, and many DSLs like jq, jQuery, RelaxNG, etc. It has a lightweight 9 MB runtime, built from scratch in C/C++, that provides an end-to-end document processing pipeline (parse → validate/query/transform → layout → render/view). Internally, Lambda parse…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    jQuery for Riak, in Python. Contribute to zacharyvoase/rkquery development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. Contribute to pisa-engine/pisa development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    hi hn, today I'm open sourcing a new SQL-like query language that's built for the web. it has dedicated syntax for request, parsers, selectors, and javascript snippets... it was built on nodejs with the incredible moo lexer and nearley parser. if you're a fan of regular expressions, do I have some code to show you! the website is mostly just a few examples and a playground where you can write & run (& share!) your own queries. there's also an introductory blog post where i try but ultimately fail to justify why this should be its own language and not a library/framework. enjoy!

    2024 · getlang.dev · its alternatives →

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