Come for the speed,stay for the quality.

A zero-bs fork of Orama maintained by the original team.
Full-text, vector, and hybrid search in your browser, server, or edge - in less than 2kb.

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Benchmarks

Quality vs speed

Macro-average BEIR nDCG@10 against Node.js throughput. Up and to the right is better; throughput uses a logarithmic scale.

ZBSearchOther enginesDashed line and rings mark the Pareto frontier: no other engine is both faster and better.Quality and throughput use different benchmark corpora; compare the tradeoff, not absolute latency.

Features

Everything you need to search

The same Orama API you know - faster internals, no vendor lock-in.

Full-Text Search

Typo-tolerant BM25 with stemming in 30+ languages.

Vector Search

Fast similarity search with optional IVF indexing.

Hybrid Search

Combine keyword and semantic relevance in one query.

Search Filters

Filter by numbers, enums, booleans, and nested fields.

Geosearch

Radius, polygon, and sorted geo queries on BKD trees.

Results Pinning

Merchandising rules to boost or pin specific results.

Facets

Aggregate counts across categories at search time.

Fields Boosting

Weight schema properties to shape ranking.

Typo Tolerance

Forgiving matching powered by Levenshtein distance.

BM25

Industry-standard ranking out of the box.

30+ Languages

Tokenization and stemming for global text search.

Plugin System

Extend indexing, search, and persistence with hooks.

API

As simple as it gets

Just create an instance, insert your data, and start searching. No server, no database, no hassle.

app.ts

import { create, insert, search } from 'zbsearch'

const db = create({
  schema: {
    title: 'string',
    embedding: 'vector[384]',
  },
})

await insert(db, {
  title: 'Noise cancelling headphones',
  embedding: [0.8271, 0.9274, 0.8371, 0,1723, 0.5291, ...],
})

const results = search(db, {
  term: 'best headphones',
  mode: 'hybrid',
})

Search box

Headless, so it looks like your site

@zbsearch/searchbox-react ships the behaviour - searching, grouping, keyboard nav, a11y. The look is a handful of CSS variables. Switch themes and type; the index is running in your browser.

Integrations