# Orama

> Orama is an open-source search company building an 'answer engine' for developers - a lightweight, high-performance stack that bundles full-text, vector, and hybrid search with automatic embedding generation and built-in LLMs. Started as the open-source project Lyra and incorporated as OramaSearch Inc. in 2023 by Issac Roth and Michele Riva, its core library ships in under 2KB and runs in the browser, on servers, or at the edge. Orama powers site search and AI answers for developer platforms including nodejs.org, tanstack.com, and solidjs.org, and its OramaCore runtime packages a search engine, vector database, and LLM interface into one deployable unit.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Issac Roth (Co-founder & CEO), Michele Riva (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~14 employees
- **Products:** Orama (open source), OramaCore, Orama Cloud, Answer Engine
- **Notable:** Grew from open-source project Lyra to incorporated company OramaSearch Inc. in 2023, 10,000+ GitHub stars on the core Orama repository, Adopted by major developer platforms including nodejs.org, tanstack.com, and solidjs.org

## Products & services

- **Orama (open source)** — A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in under 2KB, written in TypeScript, supporting full-text, vector, and hybrid search across browser, server, and edge runtimes with no external dependencies.
- **OramaCore** — A Rust-based runtime that bundles a full-text search engine, vector database, embedding generation, and an LLM interface into one deployable unit for building answer engines, copilots, and search.
- **Orama Cloud** — A managed cloud search platform offering hybrid search, automatic embedding generation, an answer engine, analytics, and webhook APIs for index management on a flat-fee, unlimited-query model.
- **Answer Engine** — Generative answer sessions that retrieve from your indexed content and return grounded, cited AI answers with confidence thresholds and guardrails against hallucination.

## Achievements

- Grew from open-source project Lyra to incorporated company OramaSearch Inc. in 2023
- 10,000+ GitHub stars on the core Orama repository
- Adopted by major developer platforms including nodejs.org, tanstack.com, and solidjs.org
- Core search engine and RAG pipeline ships in under 2KB with zero dependencies
- OramaCore reduced answer time-to-first-token from ~5 seconds to ~1 second
- Vector search across millions of embeddings in under 2ms including query embedding generation

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — OramaCore entered public beta - a from-scratch runtime combining search engine, vector database, embeddings, and LLM, positioned as part of the Orama 4.0 platform.
- **2023-09** — OramaSearch Inc. raised a reported seed round and continued building out its cloud search product.
- **2023-06** — Michele Riva announced the founding of OramaSearch Inc., the commercial home of the Lyra open-source project.

## Links

- Website: https://orama.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/askorama
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/oramasearch
- GitHub: https://github.com/oramasearch
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/orama.com

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