tantivy license, foundation and stars
Search and vector · MIT (open source) · 16,142 stars
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
License history
LICENSE fileMIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2016.
Latest release
No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).
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About and history
- Repository
- quickwit-oss/tantivy · created Jan 11, 2016
- Language
- Rust
- Foundation
- None; run by its maintainers
- GitHub detects
- MIT
- Stars per week
- From the second weekly snapshot
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 16,142 |
Changes
| What changed | |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | TrackedAdded: quickwit-oss/tantivy |