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 Engines category of a tech stack.
Zinc is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Zinc's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Zinc?
Zinc's Features
- Lightweight alternative to elasticsearch
- Requires minimal resources
- Web UI for querying data written in Vue
- Out of the box authentication
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.
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.
Google
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.
MkDocs
It builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose. There's a stack of good looking themes available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes.
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