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Sonic

Fast, lightweight schema-less search backend

Search Engines ★ 21.3k stars Medium setup MPL-2.0

Sonic is a fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend that can be used as a simpler, more efficient alternative to Elasticsearch. It is designed to ingest and query text with minimal resources.

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Key features

  • Extremely low memory usage
  • Schema-less ingestion
  • Fast prefix and word search
  • Simple text protocol

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Tiny resource footprint
  • Very fast for autocomplete

Trade-offs

  • No relevance scoring or filtering

Sonic replaces

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