ZincSearch Has a Free API: The Lightweight Elasticsearch Alternative Written in Go That Runs on 50MB of RAM
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Your side project needs search. You looked at Elasticsearch — minimum 2GB RAM, Java dependency, complex cluster setup. You looked at Algolia — $1/1000 records/month adds up fast. ZincSearch is a single Go binary that gives you Elasticsearch-compatible search on 50MB of RAM. What ZincSearch Actually Does ZincSearch (now called OpenObserve for the observability use case) is an open-source search engine written in Go. It provides full-text search with an Elasticsearch-compatible API, a