What is Zinc?
It is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch and runs in less than 100 MB of RAM. 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.
Zinc is a tool in the Search category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Lightweight alternative to elasticsearchRequires minimal resourcesWeb UI for querying data written in VueOut of the box authentication
Zinc Pros & Cons
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Zinc Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Zinc?
Sphinx
It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.
Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.
Apache Solr
It uses the tools you use to make application building a snap. It is built on the battle-tested Apache Zookeeper, it makes it easy to scale up and down.
Lucene
Lucene Core, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities.
