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Elasticsearch

Open Source Alternatives to Elasticsearch

9 alternatives78.8k total stars5.0k total forks5 languages
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What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of addressing a growing number of use cases, built on Apache Lucene.. There are currently 9 open-source alternatives to Elasticsearch, with a combined total of 78.8k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Rust.

Showing 9 open-source alternatives

OpenObserve
OpenObserveopenobserve/openobserve

An open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

18.6k793TypeScript
1 day ago
Manticore Search
Manticore Searchmanticoresoftware/manticoresearch

An open-source, fast, and easy-to-use database designed for full-text and hybrid search, serving as a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch.

11.8k624C++
1 day ago
Quickwit-oss/quickwit
Quickwit-oss/quickwitquickwit-oss/quickwit

A cloud-native search engine optimized for observability data like logs and traces, offering sub-second search on cloud storage.

11.1k538Rust
1 day ago
ParadeDB
ParadeDBparadedb/paradedb

A PostgreSQL extension that brings Elastic-quality full-text search and analytics directly inside Postgres.

8.7k371Rust
1 day ago
pg_analytics
pg_analyticsparadedb/paradedb

A PostgreSQL extension that brings Elastic-quality full-text search and analytics directly inside Postgres.

8.7k371Rust
1 day ago
GreptimeDB
GreptimeDBgrepTimeTeam/greptimedb

An open-source observability database that unifies metrics, logs, and traces into a single engine, replacing Prometheus, Loki, and Elasticsearch.

6.2k483Rust
1 day ago
ransack
ransackactiverecord-hackery/ransack

A Ruby gem for adding object-based search and filtering to Rails applications without external dependencies.

5.9k824Ruby
1 month ago
ransack
ransackactiverecord-hackery/ransack

A Ruby gem for adding object-based search and filtering to Rails applications without external dependencies.

5.9k824Ruby
1 month ago
Elasticlunr
Elasticlunrweixsong/elasticlunr.js

A lightweight JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and offline search, offering query-time boosting and field search.

2.1k151JavaScript
3 years ago
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