Tantivy is a full text search engine library written in rust.

It is closer to Lucene than to Elastic Search and Solr in the sense it is not an off-the-shelf search engine server, but rather a crate that can be used to build such a search engine.

Tantivy is, in fact, strongly inspired by Lucene's design.

Features

Full-text search
Tiny startup time (<10ms), perfect for command line tools
BM25 scoring (the same as lucene)
Basic query language (+michael +jackson)
Phrase queries search ("michael jackson"`)
Incremental indexing
Multithreaded indexing (indexing English Wikipedia takes < 3 minutes on my desktop)
Mmap directory
SIMD integer compression when the platform/CPU includes the SSE2 instruction set.
Single valued and multivalued u64 and i64 fast fields (equivalent of doc values in Lucene)
&[u8] fast fields
LZ4 compressed document store
Range queries
Faceted search
Configurable indexing (optional term frequency and position indexing
Cheesy logo with a horse

Non-features

Distributed search and will not be in the scope of tantivy.

Supported OS and compiler

Tantivy works on stable rust (>= 1.27) and supports Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Getting started

tantivy's simple search example
tantivy-cli and its tutorial. tantivy-cli is an actual command line interface that makes it easy for you to create a search engine, index documents and search via the CLI or a small server with a REST API. It will walk you through getting a wikipedia search engine up and running in a few minutes.
[reference doc]
- For the last released version
- For the last master branch

Compiling

Development

Tantivy compiles on stable rust but requires Rust >= 1.27. To check out and run tests, you can simply run :

git clone git@github.com:tantivy-search/tantivy.git
cd tantivy
cargo build

Contribute

Send me an email (paul.masurel at gmail.com) if you want to contribute to tantivy.