Senna is an embeddable fulltext search engine, which you can use in conjunction with various scripting languages and databases. Senna is an inverted index based engine, and combines the best of n-gram indexing and word indexing to achieve fast, precise searches. While senna codebase is rather compact it is scalable enough to handle large amounts of data and queries. WWW: http://dev.razil.jp/project/senna/?lang=en