hyper-p2p-inverted-index

Distributed inverted index with term-level gossip sync over Hyperswarm.

Category: indexes-search

Composes with: hyper-p2p-topic-channel

Protocol: inverted-index/v1

When to use

Peer-assisted document lookup where each node indexes local docs and merges remote term postings via gossip.

When not to use

Large-scale search requiring ranked full-text scoring (use hyper-p2p-fulltext-lite) or exact global consistency without merge semantics.

Quick start

const { HyperP2PInvertedIndex } = require('hyper-p2p-inverted-index')
const topic = process.argv[2]
const mod = new HyperP2PInvertedIndex({ topic })
await mod.ready()
mod.index('doc-1', ['pear', 'p2p'])
console.log(mod.search('pear'))
await mod.close()

Docs

docs/api.md — constructor, methods, events, errors
docs/architecture.md — wire types, state, composition
../../_shared/PRODUCTION.md — production checklist

Test

npm install && npm test