Fess
Powerful enterprise search server easy to deploy
Fess is an open-source enterprise search server that crawls websites, file systems and databases to provide a unified full-text search interface. It is built on OpenSearch and is self-hosted.
Key features
- Crawls web and file systems
- Unified full-text search
- OpenSearch-based
- Self-hostable
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (1.1k GitHub stars)
- Written in Java
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