Tantivy is a full text search engine library written in rust.

It is closer to Lucene than to Elastic Search and Solr in the sense it is not an off-the-shelf search engine server, but rather a crate that can be used to build such a search engine.

Tantivy is, in fact, strongly inspired by Lucene's design.

Features

• Full-text search
• Fast (check out the 🐎 ✨ benchmark ✨ 🐎)
• Tiny startup time (<10ms), perfect for command line tools
• BM25 scoring (the same as lucene)
• Natural query language (michael AND jackson) OR "king of pop"
• Phrase queries search ("michael jackson")
• Incremental indexing
• Multithreaded indexing (indexing English Wikipedia takes < 3 minutes on my desktop)
• Mmap directory
• SIMD integer compression when the platform/CPU includes the SSE2 instruction set.
• Single valued and multivalued u64 and i64 fast fields (equivalent of doc values in Lucene)
• &[u8] fast fields
• LZ4 compressed document store
• Range queries
• Faceted search
• Configurable indexing (optional term frequency and position indexing)
• Cheesy logo with a horse

Non-features

• Distributed search is out of the scope of tantivy. That being said, tantivy is meant as a library upon which one could build a distributed search. Serializable/mergeable collector state for instance, are within the scope of tantivy.

Supported OS and compiler

Tantivy works on stable rust (>= 1.27) and supports Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Getting started

• tantivy's simple search example
• tantivy-cli and its tutorial. tantivy-cli is an actual command line interface that makes it easy for you to create a search engine, index documents and search via the CLI or a small server with a REST API. It will walk you through getting a wikipedia search engine up and running in a few minutes.
• [reference doc]
  • For the last released version
  • For the last master branch

Compiling

Development

Tantivy compiles on stable rust but requires Rust >= 1.27. To check out and run tests, you can simply run :

git clone git@github.com:tantivy-search/tantivy.git
cd tantivy
cargo build

Running tests

Some tests will not run with just cargo test because of fail-rs. To run the tests exhaustively, run ./run-tests.sh.

Contribute

Send me an email (paul.masurel at gmail.com) if you want to contribute to tantivy.