Google-like searches with Lucene
Posted by mop Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:30:00 GMT
Lucene is a Java system for "high-performance, full-featured text search". The software apears to be mature, and the community has produced a fair bit of documentation. A replacement for RDBMS-based searches?
No doubt that the searching is more intuitive, and would make it easier for users to perform keyword searches. Not sure that a Google-like engine could match RDBMS for field-based searching and fancy list navigation.
- Phonetix integrates phonetic algorithms into Lucene
- Luke provides a high level interface (Java and GUI) to Lucene’s generated indexes
- limited benchmarks are available
