tantivy
A full-text search engine library written in Rust, inspired by Apache Lucene.
What is tantivy?
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library written in Rust, designed for building fast and efficient search capabilities directly into applications. It provides robust indexing and querying features, serving as a high-performance alternative to libraries like Apache Lucene. The library emphasizes low startup times, multithreaded performance, and flexibility for integration into various software projects.
Developers building search functionality into applications, especially those using Rust who need an embedded, high-performance search library. It's also suitable for creators of command-line tools or those seeking a Lucene-like engine without the overhead of a full search server.
Developers choose Tantivy for its Rust-based performance, tiny startup times (under 10ms), and multithreaded indexing capabilities. Its unique selling points include SIMD integer compression, configurable tokenizers with support for multiple languages, and being a library (not a server) that offers Lucene-like features with often faster query performance.
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Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
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