# lnx-search/lnx

A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.

Repository: https://github.com/lnx-search/lnx
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lnx
Homepage: https://lnx.rs
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: search, search-engine, tantivy, tokio, rust, instant, database
Last push: 2025-10-14T23:51:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 44/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 47, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1846, "days_push": 323, "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 1452, forks 52 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:46.110642+00:00)

## What it is
lnx is an open-source, self-hosted search database that exposes the Tantivy full-text search engine through a REST API. It offers typo-tolerant fuzzy and fast-fuzzy queries, more-like-this search, field sorting, and token-based authorization with millisecond indexing performance.

## Use cases
- add typo-tolerant full-text search to my app
- self-hosted alternative to meilisearch or algolia
- search as you type over millions of documents
- find similar documents for e-commerce recommendations
- expose a fast REST search API over my dataset
- index tens of thousands of documents with millisecond latency

## When to choose
- you need a fast, self-hosted search engine with fuzzy/typo-tolerant queries
- you want fine-grained performance tuning of reader/writer threads per index
- you prefer a lightweight Rust-based stack without AI/ML features
- you need more-like-this similarity queries or field sorting

## When to avoid
- you need semantic/vector or AI-powered search
- you require CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) language support, which is not yet available
- you want a fully managed hosted service
- you need a mature ecosystem with extensive integrations

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, http-server, api-framework, authorization
- domain: databases, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: rust, self-hosted, windows
- tags: full-text-search, typo-tolerance, fuzzy-search, tantivy, rest-api, search-as-you-type, alternative-to-meilisearch, tokio, search, docker, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- lnx-search/lnx (main) score 44

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:46.110642+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 2026-08-30T04:35:48.751219+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lnx-search/lnx (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:46.110642+00:00, sha 8920896b5a42)
  - homepage: https://lnx.rs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:45:08.287963+00:00, sha bbf31e460967)
  - site_page: https://docs.lnx.rs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:45:08.297450+00:00, sha 9d5411875c8e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.