softwaredoug/searcharray
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Full text search that feels like a numpy array
8 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-11-19 · latest 2026-01-15
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I built a Pandas extension SearchArray, I just use that (plus in memory embeddings) for any toy thing https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray
comment by softwaredoug · 2026-01-15 · in Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? -
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Show HN: SearchArray – Full text search that feels like a NumPy arraystory by softwaredoug · 2025-04-15 · 0 comments
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…is a pandas extension for fulltext (BM25) search for dorking around with things in google colab https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray I'll also plug Xing Han Lu's BM25S which is very popular with similar goals:…
comment by softwaredoug · 2024-11-20 · in Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm -
…) I added a column type for full text search, searching tokenized text ( https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray ) The pandas support for extensions is very robust with extensive testing to make sure you can do all the data agg
comment by softwaredoug · 2024-08-29 · in Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish -
…cool. I have a pretty fast BM25 search engine in Pandas I've been working on for local testing. https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray Why Pandas? Because BM25 is one thing, but you also want to combine with other factors (recency,…
comment by softwaredoug · 2024-02-07 · in A search engine in 80 lines of Python -
…in SearchArray which emulates the classic search index side of things in a pandas dataframe column https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray
comment by softwaredoug · 2024-01-26 · in Are we at peak vector database? -
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SearchArray turns Pandas string columns into a term indexstory by kordlessagain · 2023-12-27 · 0 comments
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Show HN: SearchArray – Text Search in Pandasstory by softwaredoug · 2023-11-19 · 2 comments