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Dev tools · December 14, 2021

Zinc Search Engine

An alternative to elastic search requiring minimal resources

Zinc Search Engine launched on December 14, 2021 with 77 votes, #646 of 2,707 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Zinc is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go. It's simple and easy to operate as opposed to Elasticsearch which requires a couple dozen knobs to understand and tune.

ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go. - zincsearch/zincsearch

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