Design Goals

Goals

• Provide building blocks for search on Typelevel sites
• Enable indexing on JVM, searching in browser JS
• Cross compile to JVM / JS / Native
• Support full Lucene query syntax
• Be safe, functional, and performant

Non Goals

• Competing with or somehow surpassing Lucene
• Being a distributed search like Elasticsearch
• Heavy write workloads

Lucene Inspired

It's worth calling out how Lucene inspired this library is. Lucene is an absolutely incredible piece of software. It has been optimized and extended by a large community for well over 20 years. If you are looking for very performant search, with a wide range of language support, flexibility and features, you won't find anything better than Lucene on the JVM.