# Bayard
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Bayard is a full-text search and indexing server written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) built on top of [Tantivy](https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy) that implements [Raft Consensus Algorithm](https://raft.github.io/) and [gRPC](https://grpc.io/).
Achieves consensus across all the nodes, ensures every change made to the system is made to a quorum of nodes.
Bayard makes easy for programmers to develop search applications with advanced features and high availability.
## Features
- Full-text search/indexing
- Index replication
- Bringing up a cluster
- Command line interface is available
## Source code repository
- [https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard](https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard)
## Docker container repository
- [https://hub.docker.com/r/bayardsearch/bayard](https://hub.docker.com/r/bayardsearch/bayard)
## Documents
- [https://bayard-search.github.io/bayard/](https://bayard-search.github.io/bayard/)