django-haystack/django-haystack

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Haystack is a modular search library for Django that provides a unified API for plugging in different search backends such as Solr, Elasticsearch, Whoosh, and Xapian. It supports advanced features like faceting, More Like This, highlighting, spatial search, and spelling suggestions without modifying your code when switching backends.

Use cases

• add full-text search to a Django app
• swap search engines without rewriting search code
• implement faceted search on Django models
• add spelling suggestions and highlighting to site search
• index Django models into Elasticsearch or Solr
• add spatial/geographic search to a Django project

When to choose

• you use Django and want a consistent, model-based search API across multiple search backends
• you need features like faceting, More Like This, highlighting, or spelling suggestions out of the box
• you want to avoid vendor lock-in to a single search engine

When to avoid

• you are not using Django, since Haystack is tightly coupled to it
• you need modern vector/semantic search rather than traditional full-text search
• you prefer direct, fine-grained control over a specific search engine's native client

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