# Search Benchmark, The Game

IResearch is SereneDB's open-source C++ search engine. It is designed to be embedded directly inside a database and supports inverted indexes, BM25 ranking, columnar storage, vector search, geospatial indexing, and pluggable scoring.

The Search Benchmark Game uses an English Wikipedia corpus and the AOL query set to compare search workloads across engines. It covers term, phrase, intersection, union, mandatory/optional, negation, and two-phase query patterns.

## Why It Matters

Search-heavy applications such as e-commerce, internal tools, logging platforms, and AI knowledge bases are sensitive to latency and infrastructure cost. SereneDB aims to provide fast search without operating a separate external search index.

## Links

- Interactive results: https://serenedb.com/search-benchmark-game
- Benchmark overview: https://blog.serenedb.com/search-benchmark-game-overview
- Methodology repository: https://github.com/serenedb/search-benchmark-game
- Benchmarks documentation: https://docs.serenedb.com/benchmarks/search-benchmark-game