sonic license, foundation and stars
Search and vector · MPL 2.0 (open source) · 21,350 stars
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
License history
LICENSE fileMPL 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2019.
Latest release
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About and history
- Repository
- valeriansaliou/sonic · created Feb 26, 2019
- Website
- crates.io/crates/sonic-server
- Language
- Rust
- Foundation
- None; run by its maintainers
- GitHub detects
- MPL-2.0
- Stars per week
- From the second weekly snapshot
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 21,350 |
Changes
| What changed | |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | TrackedAdded: valeriansaliou/sonic |