ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go.
❗Note: If your use case is of log search (app and security logs) instead of app search (implement search feature in your application or website) then you should check openobserve/openobserve project built in rust that is specifically built for log search use case.
ZincSearch
ZincSearch is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch and runs using a fraction of the resources. It uses bluge as the underlying indexing library.
It is very simple and easy to operate as opposed to Elasticsearch which requires a couple dozen knobs to understand and tune which you can get up and running in 2 minutes
It is a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch if you are just ingesting data using APIs and searching using kibana (Kibana is not supported with ZincSearch. ZincSearch provides its own UI).
Check the below video for a quick demo of ZincSearch.
Why ZincSearch
While Elasticsearch is a very good product, it is complex and requires lots of resources and is more than a decade old. I built ZincSearch so it becomes easier for folks to use full text search indexing without doing a lot of work.
Features:
Documentation
Documentation is available at https://zincsearch-docs.zinc.dev/
Screenshots Search screen
User management screen
Getting started Quickstart
Check Quickstart
Releases
ZincSearch has hundreds of production installations.
ZincSearch Vs OpenObserve
Feature ZincSearch OpenObserve
Ideal use case App search Logs, metrics, traces (Immutable Data)
Storage Disk Disk, Object (S3), GCS, MinIO, swift and more.
Preferred Use case App search Observability (Logs, metrics, traces)
Max data supported 100s of GBs Petabyte scale
High availability Not available Yes
Open source Yes Yes, OpenObserve
ES API compatibility Yes Yes
GUI Basic Very Advanced, including dashboards
Cost Open source Open source
Get started Open source docs
Community
How to develop and contribute to ZincSearch
Check the contributing guide . Also check the roadmap items
Examples
You can use ZincSearch to index and search any data. Here are some examples that folks have created to index and search enron email dataset using zincsearch:
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