---
title: "A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch, written in Golang"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-lightweight-alternative-to-elasticsearch-written-in-golang-llgyhtdxj
source_url: https://golang.ch/a-lightweight-alternative-to-elasticsearch-written-in-golang/
type: article
source: "Golang News"
author: "St. W"
published: 2022-08-19T10:04:37.891Z
updated: 2022-08-19T10:04:37.831Z
tags: ["github", "elk", "scala"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 23
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch, written in Golang

**[Golang News](https://daily.dev/sources/glc)** · [@altafino](https://daily.dev/altafino) · 2 min read · 23 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Zinc is a lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch and runs using a fraction of the resources. It uses bluge as the underlying indexing library. It is a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch if you are just ingesting data using APIs and searching using kibana.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@garren** · 0 upvotes

> This is really awesome. I've added it to our NoSql Database squad.
> I've created a place where we can share articles
> https://app.daily.dev/squads/nosqldatabases/4752BCVgZ_S-HNF0RftT-zO850NWUBPaVL7xYRxsek8

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