Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences.

An Open Source Algolia Alternative &
An Easier-to-Use ElasticSearch Alternative

Note

• Typesense does not support binding to an IPv6 address and therefore isn't accessible over the IPv6 only private network, please use its public URL.

Features

• Typo Tolerance: Handles typographical errors elegantly, out-of-the-box.
• Simple and Delightful: Simple to set-up, integrate with, operate and scale.
• ⚡ Blazing Fast: Built in C++. Meticulously architected from the ground-up for low-latency (<50ms) instant searches.
• Tunable Ranking: Easy to tailor your search results to perfection.
• Sorting: Dynamically sort results based on a particular field at query time (helpful for features like "Sort by Price (asc)").
• Faceting & Filtering: Drill down and refine results.
• Grouping & Distinct: Group similar results together to show more variety.
• Federated Search: Search across multiple collections (indices) in a single HTTP request.
• Geo Search: Search and sort by results around a latitude/longitude or within a bounding box.
• Vector Search: Index embeddings from your machine learning models in Typesense and do a nearest-neighbor search. Can be used to build similarity search, semantic search, visual search, recommendations, etc.
• Semantic / Hybrid Search: Automatically generate embeddings from within Typesense using built-in models like S-BERT, E-5, etc or use OpenAI, PaLM API, etc, for both queries and indexed data. This allows you to send JSON data into Typesense and build an out-of-the-box semantic search + keyword search experience.
• Scoped API Keys: Generate API keys that only allow access to certain records, for multi-tenant applications.
• Synonyms: Define words as equivalents of each other, so searching for a word will also return results for the synonyms defined.
• Curation & Merchandizing: Boost particular records to a fixed position in the search results, to feature them.
• Raft-based Clustering: Setup a distributed cluster that is highly available.
• Seamless Version Upgrades: As new versions of Typesense come out, upgrading is as simple as swapping out the binary and restarting Typesense.
• No Runtime Dependencies: Typesense is a single binary that you can run locally or in production with a single command.

Benchmarks

• A dataset containing 2.2 Million recipes (recipe names and ingredients):
  • Took up about 900MB of RAM when indexed in Typesense
  • Took 3.6mins to index all 2.2M records
  • On a server with 4vCPUs, Typesense was able to handle a concurrency of 104 concurrent search queries per second, with an average search processing time of 11ms.
• A dataset containing 28 Million books (book titles, authors and categories):
  • Took up about 14GB of RAM when indexed in Typesense
  • Took 78mins to index all 28M records
  • On a server with 4vCPUs, Typesense was able to handle a concurrency of 46 concurrent search queries per second, with an average search processing time of 28ms.
• With a dataset containing 3 Million products (Amazon product data), Typesense was able to handle a throughput of 250 concurrent search queries per second on an 8-vCPU 3-node Highly Available Typesense cluster.

API Clients

While you can definitely use CURL to interact with Typesense Server directly, we offer official API clients to simplify using Typesense from your language of choice. The API Clients come built-in with a smart retry strategy to ensure that API calls made via them are resilient, especially in an HA setup.

• JavaScript
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby

If we don't offer an API client in your language, you can still use any popular HTTP client library to access Typesense's APIs directly.

Here are some community-contributed clients and integrations:

• Go
• .Net
• Java
• Rust
• Dart
• Perl
• Swift
• Clojure
• python orm client
• PHP SEAL Adapter
• Elixir

Framework Integrations

• Laravel
• Firebase
• Gatsby
• WordPress
• WooCommerce
• Symfony
• InstantSearch
• DocSearch
• Docusaurus
• ToolJet
• Plone CMS
• Craft CMS
• SEAL provides integrations of Typesense in Laravel, Symfony, Spiral, Yii and Laminas Mezzio PHP Framework