> ## Documentation Index
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# Search Engines

> Self-hosted search engines and information retrieval systems

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. This includes Web search engines.

## Applications

### Aleph

Tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case.

* **Website:** [https://aleph.occrp.org/](https://aleph.occrp.org/)
* **Demo:** [https://aleph.occrp.org/](https://aleph.occrp.org/)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/alephdata/aleph](https://github.com/alephdata/aleph)
* **License:** MIT
* **Platform:** Docker/K8S

### Apache Solr

Enterprise search platform featuring full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.

* **Website:** [https://lucene.apache.org/solr/](https://lucene.apache.org/solr/)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/apache/solr](https://github.com/apache/solr)
* **License:** Apache-2.0
* **Platform:** Java/Docker/K8S

### Fess

Powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server.

* **Website:** [https://fess.codelibs.org/](https://fess.codelibs.org/)
* **Demo:** [https://search.n2sm.co.jp/](https://search.n2sm.co.jp/)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/codelibs/fess](https://github.com/codelibs/fess)
* **License:** Apache-2.0
* **Platform:** Java/Docker

### Jina

Cloud-native neural search framework for any kind of data.

* **Website:** [https://github.com/jina-ai/serve](https://github.com/jina-ai/serve)
* **License:** Apache-2.0
* **Platform:** Python/Docker

### Manticore Search

Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).

* **Website:** [https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch/](https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch/)
* **License:** GPL-3.0
* **Platform:** Docker/deb/C++/K8S

### MeiliSearch

Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.

* **Website:** [https://www.meilisearch.com](https://www.meilisearch.com)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch](https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch)
* **License:** MIT
* **Platform:** Rust/Docker/deb

### Meme Search

AI-powered meme search engine. Automatically extracts descriptions from images using vision-language models, then indexes with vector embeddings for semantic and keyword search.

* **Website:** [https://github.com/neonwatty/meme-search](https://github.com/neonwatty/meme-search)
* **License:** Apache-2.0
* **Platform:** Docker

### OpenSearch

Distributed and RESTful search engine.

* **Website:** [https://opensearch.org](https://opensearch.org)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch)
* **License:** Apache-2.0
* **Platform:** Java/Docker/K8S/deb

### SearXNG

Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (Fork of Searx).

* **Website:** [https://docs.searxng.org/](https://docs.searxng.org/)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/searxng/searxng/](https://github.com/searxng/searxng/)
* **License:** AGPL-3.0
* **Platform:** Python/Docker
* **Note:** ⚠ Anti-features

### sist2

Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool.

* **Website:** [https://github.com/sist2app/sist2](https://github.com/sist2app/sist2)
* **License:** GPL-3.0
* **Platform:** C/Docker

### Sosse

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

* **Website:** [https://sosse.readthedocs.io/en/stable/](https://sosse.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
* **Source Code:** [https://gitlab.com/biolds1/sosse](https://gitlab.com/biolds1/sosse)
* **License:** AGPL-3.0
* **Platform:** Python/Docker

### Typesense

Blazing fast, typo-tolerant open source search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.

* **Website:** [https://typesense.org](https://typesense.org)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/typesense/typesense](https://github.com/typesense/typesense)
* **License:** GPL-3.0
* **Platform:** C++/Docker/K8S/deb

### Websurfx

Aggregate results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. It is extremely fast and provides a high level of customization (alternative to SearX).

* **Website:** [https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx](https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx)
* **License:** AGPL-3.0
* **Platform:** Rust/Docker
* **Note:** ⚠ Anti-features

### Whoogle

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.

* **Website:** [https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search)
* **License:** MIT
* **Platform:** Python
* **Note:** ⚠ Anti-features

### Yacy

Peer based, decentralized search engine server.

* **Website:** [https://yacy.net/en/index.html](https://yacy.net/en/index.html)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/yacy/yacy\_search\_server](https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server)
* **License:** GPL-2.0
* **Platform:** Java/Docker/K8S

### ZincSearch

Search engine that requires minimal resources (alternative to Elasticsearch).

* **Website:** [https://zincsearch.com](https://zincsearch.com)
* **Demo:** [https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc#playground-server](https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc#playground-server)
* **Source Code:** [https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch](https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch)
* **License:** Apache-2.0
* **Platform:** Go/Docker/K8S