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Doug
Doug

Reputation: 1945

Couple o' quick questions on Apache Lucene

-- I don't want to start any religious wars, but a quick google search indicates that Apache Lucene is the preferred open source tool for indexing and searching. Are there others?

-- What file format does Lucene use to store its index file(s)?

Thank is advance. Doug

Upvotes: 2

Views: 140

Answers (2)

Alexey Ryazhskikh
Alexey Ryazhskikh

Reputation: 2500

I suggest you to look at Sphinx. I have an experience with Lucene.net and we have many problems with multithread indexing. Lucene stores index in files, and this files can be locked by anti-viruses software. Also you can not compare numbers in Lucene: it is impossible to filter products by size and price.

Upvotes: 2

Persimmonium
Persimmonium

Reputation: 15771

  1. Which are the best alternatives to Lucene? And as a lucene user I can say it has improved a lot performance wise the last couple of versions (NOT meaning it was slow before!)

  2. it uses an proprietary format see here

Upvotes: 3

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