---
title: "In search of a Search Engine, beyond Elasticsearch: Introducing Zinc"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/in-search-of-a-search-engine-beyond-elasticsearch-introducing-zinc-3hxqri9gu
source_url: https://prabhatsharma.in/blog/in-search-of-a-search-engine-beyond-elasticsearch-introducing-zinc/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-01-13T20:50:59.982Z
updated: 2025-09-06T02:36:02.951Z
tags: ["elk", "meilisearch", "scala"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# In search of a Search Engine, beyond Elasticsearch: Introducing Zinc

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Introducing Zinc, a search engine for full text search with low resource requirements, schema-less indexes, good GUI, and compatibility with Elasticsearch APIs.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://prabhatsharma.in/blog/in-search-of-a-search-engine-beyond-elasticsearch-introducing-zinc/>

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Tags: [#elk](https://daily.dev/tags/elk), [#meilisearch](https://daily.dev/tags/meilisearch), [#scala](https://daily.dev/tags/scala)

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