Xapian

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Xapian
Developer(s) xapian.org
Stable release
1.4.21  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 23 September 2022;3 months ago (23 September 2022) [1]
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Written in C++
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Search and index API.
License GNU General Public License
Website xapian.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Xapian is a free and open-source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). [2] It is a full-text search engine library for programmers.

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It is written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python (2 and 3), PHP (5 and 7), Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby, Lua, Erlang, Node.js and R. [1] [3] Xapian is highly portable and runs on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, OS/2 [4] [2] and Hurd, [5] [6] as well as Tru64.[ citation needed ] Xapian grew out of the Muscat search engine, written by Dr. Martin F. Porter at the University of Cambridge. [7] The first official release of Xapian was version 0.5.0 on September 20, 2002. [8]

Xapian allows developers to add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. Organisations and projects using Xapian include the Library of the University of Cologne, Debian, Die Zeit, MoinMoin, and One Laptop per Child. [9]

Features [2]

GUI front-ends

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