/articles/2004/10/20/lucene en-us 40 Mike Pierson's technology blog <p><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/">Lucene</a> 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 <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene">documentation</a>. A replacement for RDBMS-based searches?<p> <p>No doubt that the <i>searching</i> 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.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.companywebstore.de/tangentum/mirror/en/products/phonetix/index.html">Phonetix</a> integrates phonetic algorithms into Lucene</li> <li><a href="http://www.getopt.org/luke/">Luke</a> provides a high level interface (Java and GUI) to Lucene&rsquo;s generated indexes</li> <li>limited <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/benchmarks.html">benchmarks</a> are available</li> </ul> Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:30:00 -0400 urn:uuid:46b228e9f3e47c542d3742aa876f99bb mop /articles/2004/10/20/lucene programming Google /articles/trackback/120