Search is a key functionality of Manticore Search. You can:

• Do full-text search and search results highlighting
• Do non-full-text filtering
• Use expressions for filtering
• Use various search options
• Use multi-queries and sub-selects
• Do aggreations and faceting of search results
• And many more

SQL:

SELECT ... [OPTION <optionname>=<value> [ , ... ]]

HTTP:

POST /search
{   
    "index" : "index_name",
    "options":   
    {
      ...
    }
}