# Riot

Go library for indexing and searching text, numeric, date, geo and vector data inside an application.


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

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot
- docs: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot/blob/main/README.md

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: vcaesar
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2017
- 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 get

### License

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

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 6058
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 9
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/vcaesar/riot/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/vcaesar/riot/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Riot is a Go library for indexing and searching text inside an application. A program opens an index on disk or in memory, adds documents with typed fields, and runs queries that include phrase, prefix, fuzzy and numeric range matches, along with vector nearest-neighbour search. Its README describes it as a fork of Bluge, and a separate `gse` package wraps it with a tokenizer for Chinese and Japanese text.

## Worth knowing

Riot is not a server. The library runs inside the process that opens the index, so a site reaches search only through a program that uses it. The README names zed, a separate project, as a distributed search engine built on riot.

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