# Bleve

Go library for indexing and searching text, numeric, geo-spatial and vector data, with a command-line tool.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bleve/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://blevesearch.com
- repository: https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
- docs: https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve/tree/master/docs
- x: https://twitter.com/blevesearch
- forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bleve

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Couchbase, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: Couchbase
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: search
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: go module import, go install for the CLI

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-24

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 11244
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 93
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 435
- dependentPackages: 275

### Sources

- urls: https://blevesearch.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blevesearch/bleve/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://www.couchbase.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- parent: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blevesearch/bleve/master/CONTRIBUTING.md (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://blevesearch.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blevesearch/bleve/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://blevesearch.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blevesearch/bleve/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blevesearch/bleve/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/blevesearch/bleve/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/proxy.golang.org/packages/github.com%2Fblevesearch%2Fbleve%2Fv2 (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/proxy.golang.org/packages/github.com%2Fblevesearch%2Fbleve%2Fv2 (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Bleve is an indexing and search library for Go. A Go program imports it as a package, builds an index from a mapping that describes its fields, and queries the index in process. It indexes text, numeric, date, boolean, geo-spatial and vector fields, and it supports term, phrase, prefix, fuzzy, query-string and nested queries, faceting and result highlighting. Pre-built analyzers cover a set of languages, and a command-line tool installs with go install. The contributing guide describes Bleve as a Couchbase project.

## Worth knowing

Bleve has no server of its own: the index is served by the process that imports the library, and the examples write it to a file path the program chooses.

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