Manticoresearch
manticoresoftware/manticoresearch
An open-source alternative to Elasticsearch.
Open-source search database for full-text, vector, and hybrid search with real-time indexing and SQL. (from the repository)
- Stars
- 12,063
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-18
- Written in
- C++
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 9 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
release-29.9.0, 47 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
77% closed
609 open · 2,030 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+12 in 9 days
12,063 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
CopyleftGPL-3.0
Free to run in-house. Distribute it, or software built on it, and that source must be released under the GPL too.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Docker, quoted from Manticoresearch’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.
docker run --name manticore --rm -d manticoresearch/manticore && until docker logs manticore 2>&1 | grep -q "accepting connections"; do sleep 1; done && docker exec -it manticore mysql && docker stop manticore
Manticoresearch against the other open-source options
Every project offered against Elasticsearch, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sonic | 21,364 | Active | Weak copyleft | Docker | Rust |
 Manticoresearch (this page) | 12,063 | Active | Copyleft | Docker | C++ |
 Quickwit | 11,725 | Active | Permissive | ○ | Rust |
 Matano | 1,700 | Quiet | Permissive | ○ | Rust |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with Elasticsearch and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data