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title: "nearform/lyra: 🌌 Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/nearform-lyra-fast-in-memory-typo-tolerant-full-text-search-engine-written-in-typescript--bn0tmpkz5
source_url: https://github.com/nearform/lyra
type: article
source: "Pointer"
published: 2022-08-05T15:43:06.385Z
updated: 2022-08-05T15:43:06.385Z
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 15
comments: 0
language: en
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# nearform/lyra: 🌌 Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript.

**[Pointer](https://daily.dev/sources/pointer)** · 2 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Lyra will only index string properties, but will allow you to set and store additional data if needed. The first thing to do is create a new database instance and set an indexing schema. After the data has been inserted, you can finally start to query the database.

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