Tantivy

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene, offering fast and scalable similarity search capabilities. While primarily focused on text, it supports efficient vector-based similarity searches, making it useful for vector search tasks.

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Tantivy

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust. It is designed for building fast and scalable search solutions, and can be used as a foundation for creating custom search engines.

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Features

  • Full-text search engine library
  • Written in Rust
  • Inspired by Apache Lucene's design
  • Provides fast and scalable similarity search capabilities
  • Supports efficient vector-based similarity searches (vector search)
  • Can be used to build custom search engines (not an out-of-the-box search server)
  • Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows
  • Stable Rust support
  • Includes a tokenizer API for custom tokenization
  • Actively developed and maintained

Non-Features

  • Distributed search is not included (for distributed search, see Quickwit)

Category

  • SDKs & Libraries

Tags

  • open-source
  • full-text-search
  • vector-search
  • scalable

Pricing

  • Tantivy is open-source software (no pricing; freely available under an open-source license).

Information

PublisherFox
Websitegithub.com
PublishedMay 13, 2025

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