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SearchWhat is Tantivy?
It is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust. It is not an off-the-shelf search engine server, but rather a crate that can be used to build such a search engine.
Tantivy is a tool in the Search category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Full-text searchConfigurable tokenizer (stemming available for 17 Latin languages with third party support for Chinese, Japanese, and KoreanFastTiny startup time (<10ms), perfect for command line toolsBM25 scoring (the same as Lucene)Natural query languagePhrase queries search (e.g. "michael jackson")Incremental indexingMultithreaded indexing (indexing English Wikipedia takes < 3 minutes on a desktop)Mmap directorySIMD integer compression when the platform/CPU includes the SSE2 instruction setLZ4 compressed document storeRange queriesFaceted searchConfigurable indexing (optional term frequency and position indexing)
Tantivy Pros & Cons
Pros of Tantivy
- ✓Fast
- ✓Customizable
Cons of Tantivy
No cons listed yet.
Tantivy Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Tantivy?
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.
Sphinx
It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.
