Meilisearch

Meilisearch is an open-source search engine that developers add to websites and apps for fast search-as-you-type. The company behind it is based in Paris, and Quentin de Quelen is its co-founder and chief executive. It was founded in 2019, wrote its engine in Rust and raised a 15 million US dollar Series A in October 2022. The GitHub repository counts around 60,000 stars.

Features

• Search-as-you-type with typo tolerance, filters, facets, sorting, synonyms and geosearch
• Hybrid search that combines keyword and semantic search, plus conversational search
• Multi-tenancy, replication and sharding, a REST API and clients for many programming languages
• Self-hosting or Meilisearch Cloud as a managed service

Licence and model

The community edition is open source under the MIT licence. Enterprise features are offered under a commercial licence or the Business Source License 1.1. Meilisearch is built for site and app search and is not meant to be a general analytics database.