# mosuka/bayard

A full-text search and indexing server written in Rust.

Repository: https://github.com/mosuka/bayard
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bayard
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: grpc, rust, search-engine, gossip-protocol, http-server, swim
Last push: 2023-03-06T15:17:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2497, "days_push": 1276, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1870, forks 75 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:46.826825+00:00)

## What it is
Bayard is a distributed full-text search and indexing server written in Rust, exposing gRPC and RESTful APIs. It supports index sharding, replication, and master-less cluster membership discovery via the SWIM gossip protocol.

## Use cases
- run a distributed full-text search server
- index and search documents across a cluster
- build a search backend with gRPC or REST API
- shard and replicate search indices for high availability
- search multilingual text with custom analyzers
- bring up a multi-node search cluster without a master node

## When to avoid
- you need a mature ecosystem like Elasticsearch or OpenSearch with rich plugins
- you only need embedded full-text search within a single application
- you require frequent updates and active community support

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: search-engine, http-server, rpc
- domain: databases, microservices, backend
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: full-text-search, grpc, gossip-protocol, swim, indexing, cluster, rust, rest-api, distributed-search, search, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- mosuka/bayard (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:46.826825+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:15:05.414687+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mosuka/bayard (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:46.826825+00:00, sha 607faf084a0c)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/bayard (fetched 2026-08-29T10:54:02.921236+00:00, sha 3fcee2f962ad)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.