Groonga 16 on Ubuntu 24.04

Azure Databases

Open source full text search engine and column store, with an HTTP command API and admin UI.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Groonga is a full text search engine and column store. It builds an inverted index over your text so queries match documents by their words rather than scanning every row, with a choice of tokenizers including bigram for mixed language text and MeCab for Japanese morphological analysis, plus normalization, stemming, geolocation search and fast drilldown aggregation. It is the engine behind Mroonga and PGroonga, and runs standalone as a server with a command API and a browser admin interface.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg ships Groonga preconfigured on a hardened, fully patched base, ready to index at first boot. Because Groonga has no authentication of its own and its command API is fully privileged, the image binds it to loopback and makes an authenticating reverse proxy the only public listener, with a unique credential generated on first boot and no default login anywhere. The database ships empty, a paired deployment guide walks through building an index and searching it, and it is backed by 24/7 support.

Common uses

  • Application full text search
  • Multilingual and CJK search
  • Log and document search

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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