groonga

Install command:
brew install groonga

Fulltext search engine and column store

https://groonga.org/

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/groonga.json

Formula code: groonga.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 16.1.5
head ⚡️ HEAD

Revision: 2

Depends on:

lz4 1.11.1 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
mecab 0.996 Yet another part-of-speech and morphological analyzer
mecab-ipadic 2.7.0-20070801 IPA dictionary compiled for MeCab
msgpack 7.0.2 Library for a binary-based efficient data interchange format
onigmo 6.2.0 Regular expressions library forked from Oniguruma
simdjson 5.1.1 SIMD-accelerated C++ JSON parser
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.4.5 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: libedit

Binaries: groonga, groonga-suggest-create-dataset

GitHub Packages downloads:

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