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Hunt is a flexible, lightweight search platform written in Haskell.

The default server implementation provides a powerful JSON-API and a simple web interface.

• Powerful query language
• Schema support (numeric data, dates, geospatial data)
• Granular ranking capabilities
• JSON API
• Extensible architecture

• GHC: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
• Cabal: Haskell package management tool

The easiest way to get the setup started is to install the currentHaskell Platform.

If you're using linux, you can usemake for the build.

git clone https://github.com/hunt-framework/hunt.gitcd huntmake sandbox install

If you're using Windows, you can use cabal for the build. If you would like to use sandboxes on Windows, you can copy the neccessary cabal commands from our Makefile.

git clone https://github.com/hunt-framework/hunt.gitcd hunt/hunt-servercabal install

The following line starts the default server.The web interface is available athttp://localhost:3000/.

make startServer

A small sample data set can be inserted with:

make insertJokes

No, we are using 64-bit hashes for our internal document IDs. Collisions are much more likely for 32-bit hashes and the available memory would be limited to 4GB.

GHC performs a a major garbage collection every 0.3 seconds in idle, which can be computationallyexpensive on a big index. This can be disabled with theGHC RTS option-I0.

Hunt was started in 2013 byUlf Sauer andChris Reumann to improve and extend theexistingHolumbus framework.Holumbus was developed in 2008-2009 byTimo B. Kranz andSebastian M. Gauck andpowers the current Haskell API searchHayoo!.We decided to rebrand, because Hunt represents a major rewrite and breaks compatibility.

A new Hayoo implementation is currently under development bySebastian Philipp.

Both projects were developed at theFH Wedel under supervision and active support ofProf. Dr. Uwe Schmidt.