Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Manticore Search
A faster alternative to Elasticsearch written in C++
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Manticore Search launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hello folks, We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files. OpenObserve…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Search Cluster Monitoring & Maintenance, Redefined
2025 · neverblink.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi folks, Quickwit cofounder here. We started Quickwit 3 years ago with a POC, "Searching the web for under $1000/month" (see HN discussions [0]), with the goal of making a robust OSS alternative to Elasticsearch / Splunk / Datadog. We have reached a significant milestone with our latest release (0.7) [1], as we have witnessed users of the nightly version of Quickwit deploy clusters with hundreds of nodes, ingest hundreds of terabytes of data daily, and enjoy considerable cost savings. To give you a concrete example, one company is ingesting hundreds of terabytes of logs daily…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' - sharkdp/fd
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We just released a major upgrade to SigNoz with support for Logs management based on ClickHouse. Would love to get any feedback from the community here on what you think and any questions you may have for us Many big companies like Uber and Cloudflare have been shifting to ClickHouse as their main workhorse for Logs management seeing much better performance. for e.g Cloudflare recently shifted from Elastic to ClickHouse and are seeing 8x improvement in memory/cpu resource requirement in ingestion. This is our first release with Logs support and we have added support for: - Filtering…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →
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dejavu▲90A modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch.
2016 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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Multi-platform desktop elasticsearch GUI & management tool
2021 · its alternatives →
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SereneDBfree▲262Ultra-Fast Search & Analytics Database, Agentic AI ready
Sep 2026 · serenedb.com · its alternatives →
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Elasticsearch UI components for React 📝
2018 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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An alternative to elastic search requiring minimal resources
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:crystal_ball: Scalable reverse image search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch - dsys/match
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SeekStorm: vector & lexical search - in-process library & multi-tenancy server, in Rust. - SeekStorm/SeekStorm
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HNSW implementation in Rust. Reference: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1603/1603.09320.pdf - swapneel/hnsw-rust
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Searchkit - UI Widgets for Elasticsearch. React, Vue & Javascript supported
2016 · searchkit.co · its alternatives →
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Dejavu 2.0▲87Open-source data browser for Elasticsearch
2017 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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go-stash is a high performance, free and open source server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from Kafka, processes it, and then sends it to ElasticSearch. - kevwan/go-stash
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Making Postgres and Elasticsearch work together like it's 2023 - zombodb/zombodb
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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There's a lot of paid search engine indexation tools out there and I wanted to create my own. Been working as an engineer for over a decade now and my open-source contribution has always been something I wanted to do. Thus I decided to create FastIndex, an open-source search engine indexation alternative to paid solutions such as TagParrot, URLMonitor, Omega Indexer and many more. Source: https://github.com/maurocasas/fastindex Wiki: https://github.com/maurocasas/fastindex/wiki
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →
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- OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative alternatives
- Pulse for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch alternatives
- Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog alternatives
- A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust alternatives
- SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic alternatives
- GUI for writing Elasticsearch queries alternatives
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →