# Tantivy

Full-text search engine library written in Rust, with which programs build their own search engines.


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

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
- docs: https://docs.rs/tantivy/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Paul Masurel
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: search
- hosting: binary
- language: rust
- 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: cargo

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-17

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 16355
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 197
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 395
- dependentPackages: 74

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://docs.rs/tantivy/ (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/tantivy/versions (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/blob/0.27.0/Cargo.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/quickwit-oss/tantivy/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/crates.io/packages/tantivy (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/crates.io/packages/tantivy (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/quickwit-oss/tantivy/releases/latest (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/tantivy/versions (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://crates.io/crates/tantivy (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Tantivy is a Rust library for full-text search. A program links it in as a crate and builds its own search engine on it, because the project is a library and not a search server that runs on its own. The README names Quickwit, a distributed search engine built on Tantivy, as a separate project. Its FAQ lists bindings for Python and Ruby, which are separate records.

## Worth knowing

Tantivy has no server to install. A search built on it runs inside the program that links the library, so the host of that program is what runs the search.

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