I'm on here looking for text indexers and everything is 'lightning fast exoscale terafloops that scales to enterprise quantawarbles with polytopplic performanations' and it would be great if this industry could breathe into a bag until it remembers that one person with one computer is a constituency that matters.
@mhoye the Quickwit marketing text says all the enterprise things you dislike but the docs say that it's a single binary you can download and run on your machine: https://quickwit.io/
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Sub-second search & analytics engine on cloud storage

@tedmielczarek @mhoye this works super well on a single workstation.

The component that make it work is also open source: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

GitHub - quickwit-oss/tantivy: Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust - quickwit-oss/tantivy

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@tedmielczarek @mhoye Based on the same underlying indexer (Tantivy), this one has a http api: https://github.com/lnx-search/lnx
GitHub - lnx-search/lnx: ⚑ Insanely fast, 🌟 Feature-rich searching. lnx is the adaptable, typo tollerant deployment of the tantivy search engine.

⚑ Insanely fast, 🌟 Feature-rich searching. lnx is the adaptable, typo tollerant deployment of the tantivy search engine. - GitHub - lnx-search/lnx: ⚑ Insanely fast, 🌟 Feature-rich searching. lnx ...

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@tedmielczarek @mhoye Tantivy does look useful (and might save me from trying to revive glimpse in my retirement years). I should confess that at work I do run a full ELK stack...