The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing search results. A database server can include both a database and a search engine. The database server can receive, from a software service server, storage metadata indicating a plurality of tables of the database and fields of each of the plurality of tables. The database can generate a metadata search index, including tables and fields populated based on the storage metadata, and store it on the database. The database server may receive a search request including one or more search terms from a query-building application of a remote computer. The search engine can determine search statements based on the search request and execute the search statements on a view of the stored metadata search index to obtain index search results. Metadata search results based on the index search results can be provided to the query-building application.