Typesense VS Xapian

Typesense Reviews

Xapian Reviews

Typesense mentions (51)

• Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for

  Typesense - Open Source Alternative to Algolia. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone

  If you like your penny take a look at Typesense https://typesense.org/ - nothing to complain here. Especially nothing complain about pricing. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Obsidian Publish full text search

  I haven’t used Publish, but I’d assume you could use something like https://typesense.org/ to index and search the vault. Source: 10 months ago

• DynamoDB search options

  A cheaper option would be to use https://typesense.org. You can use DynamoDb streams to automatically load records. It has worked well for me. Source: 11 months ago

• Is it worth using Postgres' builtin full-text search or should I go straight to Elastic?

  I’m also checking out Typesense as a possibility for replacing Elastic: https://typesense.org/. Source: 12 months ago

Xapian mentions (7)

• Making a huge collection of PDF's searchable (They are OCR'd already)

  Recoll is free/open source (GPL) that can index PDFs and search them very quickly. It uses Xapian under the hood. I have over 165,000 documents indexed on an old laptop running Linux and can query them all in a split second. Source: 6 months ago

• An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM

  + xapian which has been around a while, and while gpl licensed, is quite capable https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

  Tangentially related if you need search without the clustering and high availability story of elastic search and friends I highly recommend Xapian. Its like the SQLite of search. Single library that provides the basic set of features you would expect in a quality search experience: facets, ranked search, boolean operators, stemming etc etc. https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Need CLI tool that can handle large txt files and another tool that can conduct a lightning fast search of disk files.

  For fast searching, it usually requires indexing the files in question. There are a number of text-file indexing solutions, many of which use xapian, sphinx, or lucene/solr under the hood. Based on conditions (watching files/directories, cron jobs, new-mail triggers, etc), they'll add/remove files to the index, and you can then use a corresponding command to compose queries across that data. If it's indexed, it... Source: about 2 years ago

• Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

  There is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for "desktop" search. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago