CEO
Sergey Nikolaev leads Manticore Search and writes extensively about search architecture, performance tuning, release updates, replication, backups, hybrid search, and vector search.
Manticore Search 29.9.0 adds chunked and multi-vector auto-embeddings, embedding input limits, UTF-8 identifiers, mmap columnar access by default, and fixes for hybrid search, KNN, bulk ingestion, and grouping.
Manticore Search 29.0.2 adds native distributed and sharded table optimization, sharded-table settings inspection, faster columnar KNN rescoring, and fixes for long writes, RT optimization, backups, JDBC, highlighting, and distributed queries.
Manticore Search 28.6.6 adds UUID document IDs for real-time tables and ordered, limited GROUP_CONCAT(), plus 16 fixes across backups, replication, query processing, SQL compatibility, and secondary indexes.
Manticore Search 28.4.4 speeds up KNN rescoring, adds HTTP/custom-prompt conversational search, simplifies installs, improves facets and relevance defaults, and fixes auth, replication, SQL, and columnar/KNN issues.
Manticore Search 27.1.5 adds built-in authentication and authorization, introduces sharded tables, add conversational search, speeds up vector search, improves faceting and aggregations, and includes 65 fixes since 25.0.0.
How More Like This works in classic full-text search, what embeddings change, and why this kind of lookup is more convenient inside the search engine.
A practical guide to solving glued-vs-spaced search queries like xt850 vs xt 850, with clear explanations of bigram_delimiter, second_numeric, second_has_digit, and reproducible examples.
A practical guide to using bigram_index to accelerate phrase queries in Manticore Search, with clear explanations of all, first_freq, both_freq, and a reproducible manticore-load benchmark.
Manticore Search 25.0.0 brings a simpler bundle package, new auto-embedding controls, hybrid search, KNN prefiltering, S3-compatible backups, faster OPTIMIZE, and prepared statements.
Manticore Search now supports parallel RT disk chunk merging and N-way merges, reducing compaction time dramatically while keeping ingest throughput stable.
Install Manticore Search in one command on Linux or macOS:
curl https://manticoresearch.com | sh
For advanced installation options, see the full installation guide and the manual .