On: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

[pQd]

https://manticoresearch.com/ is the lively, open source, fork of Sphinxsearch. that's where some of the earlier developers from the project moved to. it's used as a text-search backend on craigslist.

[jzawodn → pQd]

Definitely. I love me some manticore. :-)

[altendo → pQd]

this is cool! Definitely will give it a look.