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Infrastructure / Storage & Retrieval

USearch

Unum

USearch is a single-file similarity search and clustering engine implementing HNSW over user-defined metrics, including spatial, binary and probabilistic distances. The C++ header compiles into bindings for a dozen languages and runs on desktop, mobile, WebAssembly and inside SQLite. Unum develops it.

Verified 2026-08-18 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.

Adoption

3 high confidence
3.0

458,244 PyPI downloads of `usearch` in the trailing 30 days, which lands in the 100K-1M band of the software usage scale, level 3.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Banded on the category feature matrix as single-purpose store or index. Placed two bands below the vespa anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the persist-index-retrieve path a product provides itself, at what scale and over how many retrieval modes.

  • https://github.com/unum-cloud/USearch/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

    README still documents a single-file similarity search and clustering engine with spatial, binary, probabilistic and user-defined metrics, bindings for eleven languages, and support for Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, WebAssembly and SQLite.

Verified 2026-08-18