lnx
App Listed Dormant
A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.
- Downloads
- 0
- Dependents
- Not applicable
- Stars
- 1,459
- Forks
- 52
- Contributors
- 2
- Commits
- 672
- Latest release
About
WARNING! This is the active dev branch, checkout the latest stable release: https://github.com/lnx-search/lnx/tree/refs/tags/0.9.0
✨ Feature Rich | ⚡ Insanely Fast
An ultra-fast, adaptable deployment of the tantivy search engine via REST.
🌟 Standing On The Shoulders of Giants
lnx is built to not re-invent the wheel, it stands on top of the tokio-rs work-stealing runtime, hyper web framework combined with the raw compute power of the tantivy search engine.
Together this allows lnx to offer millisecond indexing on tens of thousands of document inserts at once (No more waiting around for things to get indexed!), Per index transactions and the ability to process searches like it's just another lookup on the hashtable 😲
✨ Features
lnx although very new offers a wide range of features thanks to the ecosystem it stands on.
- 🤓 Complex Query Parser.
- ❤️ Typo tolerant fuzzy queries.
- ⚡️ Typo tolerant fast-fuzzy queries. (pre-computed spell correction)
- 🔥 More-Like-This queries.
- Order by fields.
- Fast indexing.
- Fast Searching.
- Several Options for fine grain performance tuning.
- Multiple storage backends available for testing and developing.
- Permissions based authorization access tokens.
Read the full README
Here you can see lnx doing search as you type on a 27 million document dataset coming in at reasonable 18GB once indexed, ran on my i7-8700k using ~3GB of RAM with our fast-fuzzy system Got a bigger dataset for us to try? Open an issue!
Performance
lnx can provide the ability to fine tune the system to your particular use case. You can customise the async runtime threads. The concurrency thread pool, threads per reader and writer threads, all per index.
This gives you the ability to control in detail where your computing resources are going. Got a large dataset but lower amount of concurrent reads? Bump the reader threads in exchange for lower max concurrency.
The bellow figures were taken by our lnx-cli on the small movies.json dataset, we didn't try any higher as Meilisearch takes an incredibly long time to index millions of docs although the new Meilisearch engine has improved this somewhat.
💔 Limitations
As much as lnx provides a wide range of features, it can not do it all being such a young system. Naturally, it has some limitations:
- lnx is not distributed (yet) so this really does just scale vertically.
- Simple but not too simple, lnx can't offer the same level of ease of use compared to MeiliSearch due to its schema-full nature and wide range of tuning options. With more tuning comes more settings, unfortunately.
- Metrics (yet)
Building from scratch
Requirements
- rustc v1.81+
- sccache
- linux os
Compatibility
- License
- MIT
- Crate facts
- Not measured
- Runs on, Native code and Python bindings read crates on crates.io. This entry lists no crate.
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Why ListedNo archive, New or Featured rule places it, so it is Listed.
What it lacks for Featured
- The project is dormant and not finished. Dormancy rule
What else the check found
- The last activity is on 14 Oct 2025, 391 days ago. That reaches the 365 days the rules expect, so the project is dormant. Dormancy rule
- The oldest outside issue waits 1396 days for a reply, past the limit of 270. No maintainer replied in 365 days. Rot signals rule
Not measured: Unpatched vulnerabilities past the grace window, First release.
Exact rules: Listed, Featured app. The check on applied thresholds version 9.
Every rule outcome, as the check records it
expected-interval: app: E = 365 daysdormancy: last activity 2025-10-14, 391 days ago, E = 365: dormantrot: oldest unanswered issue 1396 days (limit 270), no maintainer reply in 365 daysfeatured: not featured: dormant and not stablelisted: listed: no archive, new or featured rule applies
Measurements and sources
Each signal row shows the raw value, its source and the fetch date. The Sources list gathers every distinct source on this page. Movement needs more history.
Sources5 sources
- Description: the GitHub repository description
- GitHub releases, fetched
- GitHub repository, fetched
- Repology project, fetched
- GitHub contributors, fetched
Adoption0 binary downloads per release4 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active dependents | Not measured | Yes | ||
| New dependents (365 days) | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Peak active dependents | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Active dependents as a share of the peak | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Binary downloads per release | 0 | GitHub releases | Yes |
MaintenanceLatest human commit: 13 months ago7 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest human commit | 2025-10-14 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Latest release | 2022-10-05 | GitHub releases | Yes | |
| First release | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Latest version | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Days the oldest outside issue waits for a reply | 1396 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Maintainer replies over 365 days | 0 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository archived | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository gone | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Release commit or manifest in the repo | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Published docs | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Latest release fails cargo check | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check date | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check toolchain | Not measured | Yes |
SecurityNot measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unpatched vulnerabilities past the grace window | Not measured | Yes | ||
| RustSec unmaintained advisory | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Deprecation notice | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Deprecated requirement | Not measured | Yes |
Distribution0 binary downloads over the last 3 releases9 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Releases | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Downloads over 30 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Binary downloads over the last 3 releases | 0 | GitHub releases | Yes | |
| Homebrew installs on request over 365 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Repology repository families | 1 | Repology project | Yes | |
| Docker pull growth over 90 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Docker pulls at the growth baseline | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version a prerelease | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version 0.0.x | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version yanked | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Crate deleted from crates.io | Not measured | Yes |
Repository1,459 stars, 52 forks, 2 contributors, 672 commits. Stars alone never qualify a project.1 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 1459 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| GitHub forks | 52 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Contributors with a GitHub account | 2 | GitHub contributors | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Commits on the default branch | 672 | GitHub repository | No | |
| Repository's main crate left out of the entry | Not measured | Yes |
Facts that never count
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | MIT | GitHub repository | No | |
| Runs on, from listed crates and their direct dependencies | Not measured | No | ||
| What shows each backend | Not measured | No | ||
| Native code, from listed crates and their dependencies | Not measured | No | ||
| Python bindings, from direct dependencies of listed crates | Not measured | No | ||
| Crates that depend on a listed crate directly | Not measured | No |
Corrections and review history
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Judgments
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No judgment applies to this entry.