Meilisearch

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Typo-tolerant search that is fast to run and fast to tune

Meilisearch is a search engine you can be productive with in an afternoon. Indexing is a POST, relevance is tuned through an ordered list of ranking rules, and results come back typo-tolerant by default.

It deliberately trades some of the configurability of larger engines for the ability to reason about why a document ranked where it did.

Decisive facts

Typo tolerance and prefix search on by default
Relevance tuned through an ordered ranking rule list
Faceting, filtering, and geo search
Hybrid keyword and vector search
Single binary deployment with a small memory footprint

Backend Platforms Developer Tools rust self-hosted search vector-search api

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Hosted search with millisecond responses and ranking control

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