USearch
UnumUSearch 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- 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.
- https://github.com/unum-cloud/USearch/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-18
LICENSE file is the verbatim Apache-2.0 text
- https://api.github.com/repos/unum-cloud/USearch recorded 2026-08-18
Repo metadata - license spdx_id Apache-2.0, private false, archived false, default branch main - for unum-cloud/USearch.
- https://github.com/unum-cloud/USearch/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18
README describes 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, with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-key-gated build beside it.
Adoption
3 high confidence458,244 PyPI downloads of `usearch` in the trailing 30 days, which lands in the 100K-1M band of the software usage scale, level 3.
- https://pypistats.org/api/packages/usearch/recent recorded 2026-08-18
last_month downloads = 458,244 for usearch
Capability
3 medium confidenceBanded 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