On: Xapian: Open source search engine library

[synergy20]

that's true, wonder if there is alternative that is not gpl

[bearjaws → synergy20]

Sonic search https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

Maybe not exactly the same, its a server that you can store documents and then retrieve their ID using a search string.

[Bluestein → synergy20]

Elastic Search and its Amazon fork Opensearch perhaps?

[JackSlateur → Bluestein]

Xapian is a library, while elastic has a client-server model

Xapian is more like sqlite while elastic would be mariadb

[inertiatic → JackSlateur]

Lucene which is what ES builds upon is a library with bindings in languages other than Java, and it's Apache licensed.

[Bluestein → JackSlateur]

Thanks for the spot-on, very illuminated comparison.-