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Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

54 mentions on Hacker News by 36 people: 6 stories, 48 comments · first 2019-01-15 · latest 2026-07-13

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  1. …aren't quite ready to launch yet. [0]: https://monocle-search.com [1]: https://searchcue.com [2]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
    comment by probst · 2026-07-13 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
  2. …search index. This unified approach ensures high performance and eliminates data redundancy. [1] https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
    comment by sea-gold · 2026-01-10 · in Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
  3. …performance improvements in tantivy, which should make term aggregations considerable faster. https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/pull/2740 https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/pull/2759
    comment by PSeitz · 2025-12-15 · in Teaching Postgres to Facet Like Elasticsearch
  4. …you need a full-text search similar to Apache Lucene, my go-to options are based on Tantivy Tantivy https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy Asian language, BM25 scoring, Natural query language, JSON fields indexing support are all…
    comment by adeptima · 2025-04-14 · in Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search
  5. …proper asian language support, speed, memory foot prints, etc - amazing job! Thank you so much! https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy IMHO Datadog made a smart move! If Tantivy itself just stays permanently under Apache2 licence and find…
    comment by adeptima · 2025-01-10 · in Datadog acquires Quickwit
  6. …and we came to conclusion we do natural query language, BM25 scoring with Tantivy based code first https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy In meanwhile we collect all questions to ask LLM so we can be more consious at Hybrid Search…
    comment by adeptima · 2024-12-30 · in KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework
  7. …the few search extensions one can add (assuming extensions are available where you're running PG) https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy#features seems to be a good starting place if you want to embed search, and its…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-14 · in Huly – Open-source project management platform
  8. …article mentioned, scaling them up or out can be costly. ParadeDB looks like is based on tantivy( https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy ) which is an impressive project. We leverage it to implement full-text indexing for GreptimeDB too (…
    comment by killme2008 · 2024-08-07 · in Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives
  9. …your FP32 vectors: https://blog.pgvecto.rs/my-binary-vector-search-is-better-th... [2] Tantivy: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
    comment by wsxiaoys · 2024-06-11 · in Rank Fusion for improved code context in RAG
  10. …you use tantivy normally, not sure which json config you mean. tantivy-cli is more like a showcase, https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy is the actual project.
    comment by PSeitz · 2024-05-28 · in Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
  11. One workaround is to use the JSON field, see doc https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/blob/main/doc/src/js...
    comment by francoismassot · 2024-05-27 · in Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
  12. Beware, you still cannot add/remove fields: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/issues/470 The only way to add fields is to reindex all data into a different search index.
    comment by yencabulator · 2024-05-27 · in Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
  13. The geocoder is built on top of tantivy which is fast and uses low resources too ( https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy ). I'm curious about the comparison between those two.
    comment by francoismassot · 2024-02-17 · in Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo
  14. …a keyword-based index on top of unstructured blobs of data. Another alternative is to use Tantivy ( https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy ), a Rust version of Lucene, if building search indices via Java isn't your cup of tea :) Both…
    comment by laminarflow027 · 2024-01-18 · in RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs
  15. …maintain it, and we decided to build the distributed engine on top of it. [0] tantivy github repo: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy [1] tantivy bench https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/
    comment by francoismassot · 2024-01-07 · in Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
  16. The issue for geo search is here: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/issues/44
    comment by PSeitz · 2023-10-09 · in Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres
  17. …64-bit block The select for the sparse codec is a simple array index access, that is hard to beat ( https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/blob/main/columnar/s... ). Compression is not good near the 5k threshold though. PDEP is currently…
    comment by PSeitz · 2023-07-03 · in A compressed indexable bitset
  18. …contrary to Loki, Quickwit uses a fully feature search engine library underneath called Tantivy ( https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy ). Quickwit offers different services (indexer, searcher, ..) that can be ran and scaled…
    comment by evanxg852000 · 2023-04-28 · in I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup
  19. Other: https://www.meilisearch.com/ https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi https://github.com/typesense/typesense
    comment by cies · 2022-10-24 · in Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
  20. …fits your needs... it's awesome to see that more projects are becoming available by the day! [1]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy [2]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch
    comment by syrusakbary · 2022-10-24 · in Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
  21. …and https://github.com/mosuka/bayard Here I'm listing engines based on https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - tantivy is comparable to Lucene in its scope - but I'm sure there are other engines that could tackle ElasticSearch.
    comment by nextaccountic · 2022-10-15 · in Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
  22. …nothing to do with the elastic/opensearch debacle and I don't see enough tires getting kicked. [0]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy [1]: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi [2]: https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-10-14 · in Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
  23. …to ES and Lucene respectively - QuickWit ( https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit ) and Tantivy ( https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy ).
    comment by nindalf · 2022-09-22 · in ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go
  24. …If you are comfortable with Go or Rust you should look at the latest projects in this space: - https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic - https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx -…
    comment by Xeoncross · 2022-08-25 · in Ask HN: I want to dive into how to make search engines
  25. …of the engine. You'll love what we're working on if you're interested in the implementation of: - https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch - https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst You'll be joining a…
    comment by ggordonhall · 2022-08-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
  26. …skip-lists, heaps and priority queues and this is just to get 2000's level basic tech. - https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic - https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx -…
    comment by Xeoncross · 2022-07-23 · in Writing your own search engine is hard (2004)
  27. …backend that parsed the content and indexed it. Actually, there are lots of OS projects for this: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy , https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic , https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx ,…
    comment by Xeoncross · 2022-07-19 · in Show HN: I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm
  28. …definitely has more upward potential and is more fun to work with. And the corresponding draft PR: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/pull/1067 I sadly haven't gotten around to working on it more and writing an article about it.…
    comment by phiresky · 2021-07-30 · in Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
  29. …to the quality of the code, but their aim is to rewrite Lucene-type functionality as a Rust crate. https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
    comment by PeterCorless · 2021-06-09 · in FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]
  30. Tantivy? Written in Rust. More like Lucene than Elastic, though. https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
    comment by PeterCorless · 2021-06-09 · in FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]
  31. Tantivy is giving it a good go: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy The good thing about Lucerne existing is you’re allowed to also use their good ideas.
    comment by bpicolo · 2021-06-08 · in FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]
  32. …For this demo, the tantivy indexes are fairly large and we issue HTTP Range requests against them. https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
    comment by guilload · 2021-05-07 · in Searching the web for under $1000/month
  33. FWIW... 1. Toshi https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi (Rust, 3.1k stars) 2. Tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy (Rust, 4.5k stars) 3. PISA https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa (C++, 486 stars) 4. Bleve…
    comment by johnx123-up · 2021-03-03 · in ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis
  34. Alternatives https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
    comment by thethought · 2021-01-20 · in Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
  35. …It's in Rust, is MIT licensed, supports self-hosting, has an out of the box web interface. [1] https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy [2] https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic [3] https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch
    comment by lukevp · 2020-08-16 · in Solr 8.6.1
  36. …FTS server written in Rust: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi#readme (backed by the FTS library https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy#readme also in Rust)
    comment by mdaniel · 2020-08-04 · in Let's build a full-text search engine
  37. You may also be interested in https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
    comment by nicoburns · 2020-06-29 · in Greatest Java apps
  38. https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy is a Rust based Lucene-alike.
    comment by nicoburns · 2020-03-25 · in MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust
  39. …are typically closed sourced. Rust and Go both have interesting open-source full text engines: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve In near future I totally see someone producing a great…
    comment by DmitryOlshansky · 2020-02-23 · in Guide to running Elasticsearch in production
  40. …list, I see no mentioning of faceted search. Whilst Tantivy does list faceted search as a feature: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy ) @tpayet, for a database like MeiliSearch, is faceted search typically always off-topic? Or…
    comment by KajMagnus · 2020-01-30 · in Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia
  41. It's built on top of Tantivy ( https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy ) that implements Tha Raft Consensus Algorithm ( https://raft.github.io/ ) by raft-rs ( https://github.com/tikv/grpc-rs ) and The gRPC (HTTP/2 + Protocol Buffers) by…
    comment by jinqueeny · 2019-11-01 · in Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
  42. …For Rust, there's Toshi: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi which is built on top of Tantivy: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy For C++, there's Xapiland: https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand For Go, there's Blast:…
    comment by manigandham · 2019-07-20 · in Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
  43. Tantivy is an interesting project I'd point to in this space: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy That said - it's effectively Lucene rewritten in rust, so the main win is some performance gains. Lucene has spent a ton of time…
    comment by bpicolo · 2019-07-19 · in Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
  44. https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy - Lucene in Rust (I have no idea about API or feature parity)
    comment by pas · 2019-06-22 · in Show HN: Fist – Persistent Full Text Search and Indexing Server Written in C
  45. …and Tantivy[2] both are lightweight search engine [1] https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic [2] https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
    comment by theblackcat1002 · 2019-04-20 · in Search Benchmarking: RediSearch vs. Elasticsearch
  46. …focus. There's also Toshi: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi which is built on top of Tantivy: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy And for C++, there's Xapiland: https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand And for Go, there's Blast:…
    comment by manigandham · 2019-03-24 · in Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in Rust
  47. If you're looking for options in the search space: - https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi - https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy (more like lucene) - https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2019-03-12 · in Open Distro for Elasticsearch
  48. Not sure if you know about tantivy but it's cool too: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2019-01-15 · in Xapiand: A fast, simple, modern search and storage engine