# Install groonga with Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix Fulltext search engine and column store. Version 16.0.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-22. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:groonga ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install groonga ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install groonga ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: databases/groonga/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install groonga ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: groonga from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install groonga ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: groonga from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#groonga ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/groonga/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:groonga - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 16.0.5 - **Source summary:** Fulltext search engine and column store - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** LGPL-2.1-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-22T09:45:18Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - groonga (cli) - groonga-suggest-create-dataset (cli) - groonga (alias) - groonga-suggest-create-dataset (alias) ## Dependencies - lz4 - mecab - mecab-ipadic - msgpack - onigmo - simdjson - zstd ## Build dependencies - cmake - pkgconf ## Uses from macOS - libedit ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 16.0.5 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-22 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/groonga/groonga - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage Groonga is an open source full-text search engine and column-oriented DBMS packaged for command-line and server use. In package-manager terms it sits in an unusual but useful space: it is both a standalone search/database executable and the C library foundation for language bindings and storage-engine integrations. The project is especially significant for Japanese and multilingual search because its design combines inverted indexes, instant updates, n-gram and word tokenizers, read-lock-free reads, geo search, and column-store aggregation in one embeddable engine. ### Project history Groonga grew out of the Senna search-engine lineage. The Groonga news archive records a 'Senna -> groonga' transition on 2009-01-14, followed by 0.x releases in 2010 and the Groonga 1.0.0 release on 2010-08-29. The 2.0.0 release announcement in 2012 framed the major-version bump as a signal that Groonga had become practical enough for wider use after steady feature additions and bug fixes. From that point the project kept a long-running monthly-ish release culture, visible in the official news archive across the 2.x through later numbered series. The core documentation describes Groonga as both a fast full-text search engine based on inverted indexes and a column-oriented DBMS. It exposes basic functionality as a C library, provides a server command, and is used by related projects as a library, a server, or a storage engine. ### Adoption history Groonga adoption spread through integrations rather than only through the standalone executable. The official related-projects page lists Mroonga for MySQL, PGroonga for PostgreSQL, Rroonga for Ruby, Nroonga for Node.js, Perl/PHP/Haskell/GObject bindings, client libraries, server utilities, and command-line helpers. The official users page documents production-style uses such as PatentField using Groonga and Mroonga for full-text search, drilldown search, near search, snippets, and column-store features over large patent data, plus smaller web and command-line tools using Rroonga, Mroonga, and other bindings. For package ecosystems, Groonga matters because the same engine appears as a direct package, a dependency of database extensions, and a dependency of language bindings. Installing the formula can support standalone experiments, local indexing tools, or native dependencies for higher-level search stacks. ### How it is used The Homebrew package installs the `groonga` command and related tooling. Users can create and query Groonga databases directly, run the built-in server, or use the C library and protocol endpoints through bindings and clients. Groonga is commonly chosen when an application needs immediate index updates, concurrent reads while updating, multilingual tokenization choices, drilldown/aggregation, or geo search without handing all data to a separate general-purpose search cluster. The project has no general user credential file in the official package-level curation. Configuration is more database/server specific than a single dotfile convention, so this batch leaves config and credentials locations null. ### Why package nerds care Groonga is package-nerd interesting because it is a native C search engine with a broad integration surface: command-line executable, embeddable library, database storage-engine base, PostgreSQL extension base, and language-binding target. Its release cadence and source-package archive make it visible in Unix packaging culture: distributors can package the core engine once, then layer Mroonga, PGroonga, Rroonga, and other related packages on top. It also represents a non-English-first search problem space in package indexes. Tokenizers, MeCab integration, n-gram behavior, and Japanese/Chinese-friendly search are not add-ons; they are central to why the package exists. ### Timeline - 2009: Official news records the transition from Senna to Groonga. - 2010: Groonga 1.0.0 was released on 2010-08-29. - 2012: Groonga 2.0.0 was released, with the announcement emphasizing maturity after steady 1.x development. - 2014: Droonga 1.0.0 was released as a distributed Groonga-related data processing engine. - 2015: PGroonga 1.0.0 was released for PostgreSQL full-text search backed by Groonga. - 2020s: The official news archive shows continued major-series releases and ongoing PGroonga activity. ### Related projects - Mroonga is the MySQL/MariaDB storage-engine integration built on Groonga. - PGroonga is the PostgreSQL extension that uses Groonga as an index for fast multilingual full-text search. - Rroonga, Nroonga, p5-Groonga, Ploonga, Proonga, Haroonga, and Groonga-GObject expose Groonga to language runtimes. - Groonga-client, GQTP clients, and command-line utilities such as grnwrap sit around the standalone server and CLI workflow. ### Sources - - - - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for groonga. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** groonga - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - groonga - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Fulltext search engine (metapackage for library use) | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-bin - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Commands for Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-doc - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Documentation of Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-examples - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-examples from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Examples of Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-munin-plugins - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-munin-plugins from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | munin-node plugins for Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-plugin-suggest - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-plugin-suggest from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Suggest plugin for Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-server-common - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-server-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Fulltext search engine (metapackage for server use) | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-server-gqtp - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-server-gqtp from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Fulltext search engine (metapackage for GQTP server use) | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-server-http - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-server-http from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Fulltext search engine (metapackage for HTTP server use) | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-token-filter-stem - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-token-filter-stem from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Stemming token filter for Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - groonga-tokenizer-mecab - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: groonga-tokenizer-mecab from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | MeCab tokenizer for Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - libgroonga-dev - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgroonga-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Development files to use Groonga as a library | https://groonga.org/ - Debian apt - libgroonga0t64 - 15.0.4+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgroonga0t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library files for Groonga | https://groonga.org/ - Nix - groonga: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/groonga/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - groonga - 13.1.1+dfsg-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: groonga from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Fulltext search engine (metapackage for library use) | https://groonga.org/ - Ubuntu apt - groonga-bin - 13.1.1+dfsg-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: groonga-bin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Commands for Groonga | https://groonga.org/ ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Database and data packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/database-data-tools/) - Matched database, SQL, migration, or data-store metadata. - [lz4](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lz4/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [mecab](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mecab/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [mecab-ipadic](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mecab-ipadic/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [onigmo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/onigmo/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [zstd](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/zstd/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [cmake](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [mariadb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mariadb/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [mariadb@10.11](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mariadb-10-11/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [mariadb@10.6](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mariadb-10-6/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [mariadb@11.4](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mariadb-11-4/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [mariadb@11.8](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mariadb-11-8/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [pgroonga](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pgroonga/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [manticoresearch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/manticoresearch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, full-text-search, indexing. - [hyperestraier](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/hyperestraier/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, indexing, search. - [dexter](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dexter/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, indexing. - [monetdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/monetdb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, column-store, data, database. - [omega](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/omega/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, indexing, search, search-engine. - [sonic](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/sonic/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, indexing, search. - [tokyo-dystopia](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tokyo-dystopia/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search, search-engine. - [meilisearch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/meilisearch/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, data, engine, full, full-text-search. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/groonga.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/groonga.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph