Site & app search

I want to pick an open-source replacement for Algolia, Elastic Cloud (adding fast search to a website or app). Below is a list from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0), in the order its website shows it. The order is a starting point, not a verdict. - Typesense: Typesense is a search engine that lets a website or app find items quickly, even when the search text has typos. It is for developers who want to add search to their own sites and apps, and it can be run on your own servers or through a paid hosted service. [Advanced setup; runs on a server you set up; replaces fully; GPL-3.0; https://github.com/typesense/typesense] - Manticore Search: Manticore Search is an open-source database for searching text, logs and other data, with SQL support and vector search. It is for developers and teams who want a self-hosted search engine instead of Elasticsearch or Algolia. [Advanced setup; runs on a server you set up; replaces fully; GPL-3.0; https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch] - Meilisearch: Meilisearch is a search engine that lets websites and apps find items quickly, even when the search has typos. It is for developers who want to add search to their own sites or apps, either on a hosted service or on their own servers. [Advanced setup; Windows · Mac · Linux; replaces fully; MIT; https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch] - ZincSearch: ZincSearch is a search engine that indexes text so you can find things quickly inside your own data. It is meant for developers and teams who want full text search without the complexity of Elasticsearch. Its README points people who want to search logs to OpenObserve, a separate product. [Advanced setup; Windows · Mac · Linux; replaces partly; Apache-2.0; https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch] - Sonic: Sonic is a search engine server that stores words and item IDs so an app can quickly find matching items. It is meant for developers who want a lighter alternative to heavy search systems like Elasticsearch. [Advanced setup; Linux; replaces partly; MPL-2.0; https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic] - Quickwit: Quickwit is a search engine for storing and searching large amounts of logs and traces, kept on cloud storage. It is aimed at engineers and operations teams who monitor software systems. Its team announced that Quickwit joined Datadog; the code remains open source. [Advanced setup; Mac · Linux; replaces partly; Apache-2.0; https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit] Setup rating: "Easy setup" means you can install it like a normal app, use it in a browser. "Advanced setup" means you must run it on your own server or use the command line, or it is a tool for developers. Full details: https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/search-engines.json Before recommending anything, ask me these three questions (one at a time, in plain words): 1) Which device or devices will I use it on (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone)? 2) How comfortable am I with technical setup: only installing apps from a store, happy to follow a step-by-step guide, or comfortable with servers and the command line? 3) What is my budget: free only, or willing to pay for hosting or support? Then recommend one to three projects from this list only, and for each say why, using how fully it replaces the app, its setup rating, and the devices it runs on. If nothing on the list fits me, say so plainly instead of stretching.

Read the list of open-source projects at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/search-engines.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do. My project or idea: