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I'm not surprised. Low-tech website with zero marketing and no big players using it or throwing their weight behind it.

I've perused their docs and the immediate question for me is, why would I use this over another more popular search library or database that already has a wealth of stackoverflow and blog posts?

I'm sure it's a fine tool, but I don't see a reason why an enterprise should hedge their bets on this unknown.

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Notmuch[1] is using it. It has a good reputation.

[1]: <https://notmuchmail.org/>

Thanks for the example, I'm aware of Notmuch but had no idea it relied on Xapian. However, back to my original point, there's simply not enough people or large projects/companies that rely on and use Xapian. I'm 99% positive that there is less than a handful of people at any of the last two Fortune 500 companies I've worked for that even knows what Notmuch is. But everyone knows Elastic, MongoDB, etc..

Again, I don't think Xapian is a bad tool or that it's underperforming by any stretch, but OP should not be surprised at all that most people have not heard of it.

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