Zinc

lastmod 2021-12-09created 2021-12-092 edits

A lightweight ElasticSearch alternative

Features

• A search engine with full-text indexing support
• Open source written in Go, runs in under 100MB of RAM
  • Installed and run as a single binary
• Can be a drop-in replacement when collecting data via the API and searching with Kibana
  • Compatible with the ElasticSearch API for data ingestion (single record or Bulk API)
  • Does not support Kibana; provides its own UI
• Uses the Bluge indexing library
• Search UI written in Vue
• Built-in authentication of its own

See also

• ElasticSearch
• Sonic - A fast, lightweight Schema-less search backend

Favorite site

• Github - zinc