# Bleve vs Manticore Search

| Attribute | Bleve | Manticore Search |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 51.5 (49% (low)) | 54.7 (60% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 12 | 79 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 685 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,187 | 11,957 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 2,131 |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A library that enables Go developers to embed powerful text, numeric, geospatial, and vector search capabilities directly into their applications through a simple API. | A fast, resource-efficient open-source database for searching large datasets and vector search. It significantly outperforms Elasticsearch while requiring minimal computational resources, and integrates with tools like Kafka and Kibana. |
| features.capabilities | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"Query string syntax with term, phrase, match, prefix, fuzzy, range, and compound","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"single_node","index_engine":"custom","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":false,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","relevance_tuning":"bm25_only","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time"}` | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"SQL","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"custom","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time"}` |
| integrations.count | - | 5 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | C++ |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"GB","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://blevesearch.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:46.052Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"100% open-source. Professional services and enterprise support plans available.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://manticoresearch.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:39.090Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 66 | 30 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.6 | 3.7 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fblevesearch%2Fbleve&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fmanticoresoftware%2Fmanticoresearch&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Search Engines)

| Capability | Bleve | Manticore Search |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | Custom | Custom |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | Query string syntax with term, phrase, match, prefix, fuzzy, range, and compound | SQL |
| Faceting & filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Geo search | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | Built-in | - |
| Relevance tuning | BM25 only | - |
| **Vector** |  |  |
| Vector / hybrid search | Dense + lexical fusion | Dense + lexical fusion |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Distributed / horizontal scale | Single-node | Sharded |
| Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants) | ✓ | - |
| **Ingest** |  |  |
| Real-time indexing | Near-real-time | Near-real-time |
| **Workload** |  |  |
| Log / analytics workload | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:48:48.102Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*