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docs(why): add Onyx and deep-searcher to the comparison table#158

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Summary

  • Added two rows to the "How MFS compares" table in docs/why.md.
  • Onyx (formerly Danswer) — the closest open-source competitor of the set: real multi-source connectors (Slack, Confluence, Jira, GDrive, GitHub, databases, ...), explicit hybrid (vector + keyword) search, and a production-grade self-hosted deployment (Docker/K8s/Helm). Scored Yes/Yes/—/Yes — it only misses file-like browse, which keeps the comparison honest rather than picking a weak strawman.
  • deep-searcher — rounds out the earlier-Zilliz-projects already in the table (Claude Context, memsearch). Scored Partial/—/—/Partial: its sources are file loaders + web crawlers only (not databases/chat/object-stores), no hybrid search evidence in its docs, and its FastAPI wrapper is closer to a convenience layer than a hardened server.

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  • Verified both scores against a research pass over each project's actual README/docs rather than assumption.

Onyx (formerly Danswer) is the closest open-source competitor in the
table: real multi-source connectors, hybrid search, and a
production-grade self-hosted deployment — it only misses file-like
browse. deep-searcher rounds out the earlier-Zilliz-projects already
in the table (Claude Context, memsearch); scored Partial/Partial since
it's a framework with file loaders (not many source types) and a
FastAPI wrapper rather than a hardened server.

Signed-off-by: Cheney Zhang <chen.zhang@zilliz.com>
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