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title: Charmhub | Deploy Zinc using Charmhub - The Open Operator Collection
description: 'Deploy the latest version of Zinc as a Kubernetes Operator on any cloud.
  Zinc is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative
  to

  elasticsearch and runs in less than 100 MB of RAM. It uses bluge as the underlying
  indexing

  library.'
url: https://charmhub.io/zinc-k8s
---

# Zinc

[Jon Seager](https://charmhub.io/publisher/jnsgruk "View all packages from Jon Seager")

* [Jon Seager](https://charmhub.io/publisher/jnsgruk "View all packages from Jon Seager")

Platform:

stable 709de83

```
juju deploy zinc-k8s
```

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#### Zinc is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative to elasticsearch and runs in less than 100 MB of RAM. It uses bluge as the underlying indexing library.

Zinc is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative to
elasticsearch and runs in less than 100 MB of RAM. It uses bluge as the underlying indexing
library.

It is very simple and easy to operate as opposed to elasticsearch which requires a couple dozen
knobs to understand and tune.

It is a drop-in replacement for elasticsearch if you are just ingesting data using APIs and
searching using kibana (Kibana is not supported with zinc. Zinc provides its own UI).