sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
Tech stack & purpose
Sonic is a fast, lightweight, and schema-less search backend written in Rust that serves as an alternative to Elasticsearch for certain use cases. It ingests search texts and identifier tuples, then returns matching object identifiers in microsecond response times while consuming minimal memory and CPU resources. The project is built in Rust and uses RocksDB as a key-value store alongside a finite-state transducer (FST) for indexing, communicating with clients through a simple TCP-based protocol called Sonic Channel. Sonic was created by Valerian Saliou and is used in production by companies including Crisp and Scrumpy, with the official Rust client library (`sonic_client`) maintained as part of the core project.
Contributors (top 30 of 47)
- Valerian Saliou657 commits · 1,339 followers
- Rémi Bardon359 commits · 38 followers
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- Raminder Singh4 commits · 79 followers
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- Anthony4 commits · 154 followers
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- Peter Chung2 commits · 70 followers
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- Ryan Cao1 commits · 141 followers
- Andreas Cederström1 commits · 151 followers
- Dileep Bapat1 commits
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- Hans Pagel1 commits · 271 followers
- Jari Aarniala1 commits
- Anthony1 commits · 154 followers
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- Remi Rampin1 commits
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- Ang1 commits · 74 followers
