You can import CSV files directly into an SQLite database. Then you are free to do whatever sql searches or manipulations you want. Python and golang both have great SQLite libraries from personal experience, but I’d be surprised if there is any language that doesn’t have a decent one.

If you are running Linux most distros have an SQLite gui browser in the repos that is pretty powerful.

I think my issue was I was building it on a debian 11 bullseye. I managed to get all the individual pieces built and running, there was just one piece missing and I can’t remember which now. I’ll certainly give it a go. Someone just sent me a kvm build of debian sid just for that reason in fact! I believe they are working on the gvm debian package.

Yes you can! I’ve attempted on debian before but it’s something like 12 components you have to build and configure and I ran into some issues. It’s been a while though and I don’t remember exactly what gave me trouble. I know I had issues at one point due to the host not having enough ram. If you don’t have at least 8 gigs it’s not going to be happy. At least in my experience.

Let me know how it goes though and what distro you use.

They have pretty good documentation.

I know you said preferably no docker, but greenbone community edition is nice. It’s a fork from nessus back in the day. They don’t really put any restrictions on the community version. If you want to see it in action I have a test server up and running.