OramaSearch Inc.

Orama builds open-source and managed search infrastructure: full-text, vector, hybrid search, answer engines and RAG that run in browsers, servers, edge networks or customer-controlled infrastructure. Its broader current positioning is helping companies design, train and ship AI grounded in their own data and measurable outcomes.

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San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2023Est.

Focus Areas

Search and Discovery

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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Open Source JavaScript Search Engine

Search & Discovery RAG AI Dev Libraries

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Latest News

06/27/2026

OramaJS 3.2.0 released with Vietnamese support, experimental Korean tokenizer, Astro 5 migration and bundler fixes.

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12/19/2025

OramaJS v3.1.18 released.

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10/12/2025

OramaJS v3.1.16 added document pinning capability.

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09/04/2025

OramaJS v3.1.13 added seqproto serialization for disk persistence and updated the documentation URL.

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Products & Services

OramaJS

2023 (as the Orama successor to Lyra)

Free, open-source, zero-dependency TypeScript search library for full-text, vector and hybrid search in browsers, servers and edge runtimes. Distributed as @orama/orama via npm and usable from browser modules and Deno/CDN imports.

Orama Cloud

Fully managed Orama service for running search and RAG at scale. It provides a simple API and web interface, projects and segregated data sources, configurable languages and embedding models, and managed full-text, vector, answer-engine and RAG capabilities.

OramaCore

2025-01-16 (open-sourced)

Open-source Rust AI runtime for answer engines, copilots and search, combining a full-text search engine, vector database, LLM interface with action planning/reasoning, embeddings, RAG, JavaScript agents and Docker deployment.

Orama Studio

The enterprise surface of the Metis Intelligence OS: connects existing data, scores what the data can support, builds verified pipelines, trains models, serves results and deploys in a customer's cloud, on-premises or dedicated infrastructure.

Market Position

Orama positions OramaJS as a lightweight, zero-dependency, embeddable alternative to hosted search and vector databases, combining full-text, vector and hybrid retrieval in one library that runs locally in browser/server/edge environments. Its broader OramaCore/Cloud offering competes with search and vector infrastructure such as Algolia, Pinecone and Weaviate, while differentiating through built-in embeddings, LLM/RAG capabilities, a JavaScript runtime and customer-controlled deployment.

Leadership

Founders

Michele Riva

Co-founder and CTO; previously a Senior Software Architect at NearForm and worked at Paramount. He created the TypeScript search engine Lyra while preparing a talk on algorithms and data structures, and presented it at WeAreDevelopers and NodeConf.

Issac J. Roth

Co-founder and CEO; previously founder and CEO of StrongLoop and CTO at Cloud-related technology companies. Crunchbase lists him as Orama's co-founder and CEO.

Angela Angelini

Early co-founder and Head of Design; has a professional background in UI/UX design.

Executive Team

Issac J. Roth

Co-founder and CEO

Founder and CEO of StrongLoop before Orama; Crunchbase identifies him as Orama's co-founder and CEO.

Michele Riva

Co-founder and CTO

Former NearForm Senior Software Architect and Paramount employee; creator of Lyra, the predecessor to Orama.

Founding Story

Orama grew out of Lyra, a small zero-dependency full-text search engine Michele Riva created in TypeScript in 2022 while at NearForm. After Paolo Insogna helped make Lyra compatible with major edge networks and the open-source project gained significant adoption, Riva and co-founders created OramaSearch Inc. in February 2023, renamed Lyra to Orama, and dedicated a full-time team to developer experience, performance and new search capabilities.

Business Model

Revenue Model

The core OramaJS library is free and open source. Orama monetizes managed/cloud and enterprise offerings, including Orama Cloud and the sales-led Metis/Orama Studio platform deployed in customer-controlled infrastructure; the company describes Orama Cloud as a managed service and Orama Studio as a talk-to-sales enterprise product.

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Developers and open-source teams
Documentation and developer-tool publishers
Ecommerce and product-catalog businesses
Companies building AI applications, copilots and support agents
Enterprise platform, data-science and machine-learning teams
Organizations requiring cloud, on-premises or dedicated deployment

Use Cases

Documentation and website search
Product-catalog and ecommerce search
Enterprise knowledge retrieval and support agents
AI answer engines and copilots
RAG applications
Semantic and hybrid search over application data

Notable Customers

TanStack
Node.js
JSR
SolidJS

Quick Facts

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Founded

2023

Entity Type

Inc.

Investors

Zero Prime Ventures, K5 Global

History & Milestones

2026-06-27

OramaJS 3.2.0 was released with Vietnamese language support, an experimental Korean tokenizer, Astro 5 support and bundler compatibility fixes.

2025-01-16

Orama open-sourced OramaCore, a Rust-based runtime combining full-text/vector/hybrid search, embeddings, built-in LLM inference, RAG and a JavaScript runtime for custom business logic.

2025

The documentation describes Orama 4.0 as a rewrite in Rust, OramaCore, powering the cloud version.

2024-10-18

Orama 3.0 launched with answer-engine and conversational/RAG capabilities, extending the open-source search engine beyond conventional search.

2023-02-27

Michele Riva announced the founding of OramaSearch Inc.; Lyra was renamed Orama. The initial team included Riva as CTO, Angela Angelini as Head of Design and Francesca Giannino as the first employee.

Key Capabilities

Full-text search with BM25 ranking

Vector and semantic search

Hybrid search

Answer Engine and RAG with conversational chat sessions

Search filters, facets, field boosting, exact match and typo tolerance

Geosearch and result pinning/merchandising

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

npm, Yarn, pnpm and Bun package managers
Browser ES modules and CDN imports
Deno and JavaScript/TypeScript runtimes
Fastly and Cloudflare edge networks
Docker images for x86_64, ARM64, CPU AI server and CUDA AI server
OpenAI and other external inference providers through the secure proxy/plugin model

Key Partnerships

Integration with Deno for custom JavaScript-based business logic in OramaCore

Orama was reported by its official social account as trusted by TanStack, Node.js, JSR and SolidJS

Orama's origins and incubation were connected to NearForm, where Lyra was developed and open-sourced

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Website

docs.orama.com/

GitHub

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