The best full-text search libraries, according to hackers
4 full-text search libraries recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
All full-text search libraries
- Apache LuceneMature, heavily optimized search library that makes full-text search straightforward, with fuzzy, stemmed and faceted matching. Critics say it adds complexity and toil and question its fit for some projects.12recommend
- TantivyRust full-text search library that people pick over SQLite for BM25 search and use as the search engine in their own tools.8recommend
- PHP-ftsPure PHP full-text search library that needs no extensions, a middle ground between LIKE queries and a full search engine, suited to shared hosting.6recommend
- Lunr.jsA lightweight client-side full-text search library for static sites, with fuzzy matching, wildcards and field queries. Critics note that the search data file can be large and slow page loads.5recommend