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.
Description written from the project's own page; checked by AI.
Screenshots1
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Listed in1
The jobs it does, and the closed apps it replaces
Databases
Replaces partlyInstead of Firebase, Kdb+, TigerGraph, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud Spanner, Elastic Cloud, Algolia, Snowflake
What's missing
Things people miss in Typesense. Upvote what matters to you; it helps its team decide.
Facts
LicenseGPL-3.0
Runs onyour own server
KindRuns on your own server
Stars on GitHub27k
Hosted onGitHub
ActivityChanged within the last year
Something wrong?
Wrong devices, a wrong description, or it isn't really open source? A mod reviews every suggestion.
What we couldn't confirm3
- The closed-app list places Typesense under Algolia only; the README does not name any other closed app it replaces, and the Pinecone mention in the list description is not backed by the README text.
- The groups listed are a guess: no existing group clearly covers a search engine for developers, and the README does not state which website or app categories it targets beyond general search.
- The README was cut off mid-sentence in the memory footprint section, so details beyond the start of the document were not available.