{"id":35829,"date":"2023-06-01T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=35829"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:21:44","slug":"list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Top Free Open Source &amp; Self Hosted Application for Search Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A\u00a0search engine\u00a0is an\u00a0information retrieval system\u00a0designed to help find information stored on a computer system. This includes\u00a0Web search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fess.codelibs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fess<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Fess is a very powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server. <code>Apache-2.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>Java\/Docker<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gigablast\/open-source-search-engine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gigablast<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Open-source search engine.&nbsp;<code>Apache-2.0<\/code>&nbsp;<code>C++<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hound-search\/hound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hound<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Lightning fast code searching made easy.&nbsp;<code>MIT<\/code>&nbsp;<code>Go\/Docker<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jina-ai\/jina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jina<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Cloud-native neural search framework for any kind of data.&nbsp;<code>Apache-2.0<\/code>&nbsp;<code>Python<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/liameno\/librengine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">librengine<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Private web search engine.&nbsp;<code>GPL-3.0<\/code>&nbsp;<code>C++<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hnhx\/librex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LibreX<\/a>&nbsp;<code>\u26a0<\/code>&nbsp;&#8211; Framework and javascript free privacy respecting meta search engine.&nbsp;<code>AGPL-3.0<\/code>&nbsp;<code>PHP\/Docker<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/manticoresoftware\/manticoresearch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manticore Search<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Much faster alternative to Elasticsearch for full-text search and data analytics. 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