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Manticore Search

High performance full-text search engine with SQL and JSON support
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What is Manticore Search?

It is a full-text search engine written in C++ and a fork of Sphinx Search. It's designed to be simple to use, light and fast, while allowing advanced full-text searching. Connectivity is provided via a MySQL compatible protocol or HTTP, making it easy to integrate.
Manticore Search is a tool in the Search as a Service category of a tech stack.
Manticore Search is an open source tool with 6.2K GitHub stars and 349 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Manticore Search's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Manticore Search?

Companies
3 companies reportedly use Manticore Search in their tech stacks, including KokiApp, musiklib, and Drinks&Co.

Developers
6 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Manticore Search.
Pros of Manticore Search
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Easy to scale
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Free
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Distributed
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Easy to get started
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Real-time inserts
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Lightweight
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Open source
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Low RAM consumption
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JSON over HTTP
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MySQL/PostgreSQL/ODBC/xml/csv sync out of the box
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SQL syntax

Manticore Search's Features

  • Full-text searching
  • RealTIme indexing
  • Facets
  • Percolate Queries
  • Distributed indexes
  • JSON attributes

Manticore Search Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Manticore Search?
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).
Algolia
Our mission is to make you a search expert. Push data to our API to make it searchable in real time. Build your dream front end with one of our web or mobile UI libraries. Tune relevance and get analytics right from your dashboard.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and operate Elasticsearch at scale with zero down time.
Swiftype
Swiftype is the easiest way to add great search to your website or mobile application.
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages, document files, forum posts, or product information. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create a search domain, upload the data you want to make searchable to Amazon CloudSearch, and the search service automatically provisions the required technology resources and deploys a highly tuned search index.
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Manticore Search's Followers
21 developers follow Manticore Search to keep up with related blogs and decisions.