Vespa

Vespa is a document-oriented search engine that supports a SQL dialect (YQL).

History

Started as a web search engine (1997) - alltheweb.com. Acquired by Yahoo! and generalized to handle general big data serving use cases (search recommendation etc.). The project was open-sourced in 2017.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20170927034410/https://www.oath.com/press/open-sourcing-vespa-yahoo-s-big-data-processing-and-serving-eng/

Website

https://vespa.ai/

Source Code

https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa

Tech Docs

https://docs.vespa.ai

Twitter

@vespaengine

Developer

Yahoo!

Country of Origin

NO

Start Year

1997

Acquired By

Yahoo!

Project Type

Open Source

Written in

C++

Supported languages

Java

Operating Systems

Linux

Licenses

Apache v2