Searchkick vs Groonga: What are the differences?

Developers describe Searchkick as "Intelligent search made easy". Searchkick learns what your users are looking for. As more people search, it gets smarter and the results get better. It’s friendly for developers - and magical for your users. On the other hand, Groonga is detailed as "* An open-source full-text search engine and column store*". It is an embeddable super fast full text search engine. It can be embedded into MySQL. Mroonga is a storage engine that is based on it.

Searchkick and Groonga can be categorized as "Search Engines" tools.

Some of the features offered by Searchkick are:

• stemming - tomatoes matches tomato
• special characters - jalapeno matches jalapeño
• extra whitespace - dishwasher matches dish washer

On the other hand, Groonga provides the following key features:

• Storage Engine
• Fast
• Easy to use

Searchkick and Groonga are both open source tools. It seems that Searchkick with 5.02K GitHub stars and 591 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Groonga with 542 GitHub stars and 109 GitHub forks.