Strus

strus: Open-Source Full-Text Search Engine

High-performance, scalable search engine for applications, supporting multiple languages and integrating with databases and web servers

What is Strus?

strus is an open source, high-performance search engine software written in C++. It is designed to provide full-text search capabilities and advanced search functionality for applications and systems needing robust text search and analysis.

Some key capabilities and features of strus include:

• Performs fast indexing and searching of textual data stored in databases, files or other sources.
• Supports multiple languages including international character sets.
• Provides customizable ranking models and scoring algorithms allowing tuning search results.
• Scalable architecture using sharding which allows distributing data and search load across servers.
• APIs for integration with other apps, databases, web servers.
• Plugin support for adding custom data filters, analyzers, ranking methods.
• Commercial support and maintenance options available from software vendor.

strus can help developers and solutions architects build performant search engines into their systems and apps. Use cases include eCommerce product search, site internal search, document retrieval and more. Its capabilities for customization, scalability and open source codebase make it suitable for search use cases big and small.

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